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Abacavir sulfate is the generic name for a drug that also goes by the brand name Ziagen. It is given in tablets and in an oral solution. It is an antiretroviral agent, called a nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor, or NRTI, used to treat th more...
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Abana is an herbal formula that helps reduce the sensitivity of the heart to adrenergic stimulation. Because it can increase the contractility of the heart by exerting a positive inotropic action, it is well-known for being a safe and effective cardioprot more...
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Acarbose is a generic name for a drug that also goes by the brand name Glucobay. Acarbose is used in conjunction with diet to lower blood sugar in people who have type 2 diabetes mellitus and cannot control it with diet alone. Acarbose is given in pills more...
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Accolate is an asthma medication in a class of medications known as leukotriene receptor antagonists, or LTRA’s. It works by blocking the production of certain substances that provoke the symptoms of an asthma attack, such as coughing, wheezing, shortnes more...
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Acenocoumarol is an anticoagulant drug that is used to stop blood from clotting. It is mostly used to treat thrombotic disorders which obstruct the normal flow of blood in the blood vessel and may create serious health problems in the process. At other ti more...
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Aceon is a member of the family of medications known as ACE inhibitors, and can be generically prescribed as perindopril. ACE inhibitors are used to treat patients with coronary artery disease to prevent heart attacks as well as used to treat hypertension more...
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Acetaminophen is probably the most commonly used drug there is. Since it is a non-prescription drug, people have become comfortable to employ it on numerous symptoms associated with different medical conditions. Acetaminophen is more popularly known by th more...
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Acetylsalicylic Acid, commonly known as Aspirin, is used for a variety of medical conditions. It has analgesic, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, and anticoagulant properties that are useful in relieving a handful of aches and pains, fever, inflammation, an more...
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Aciphex, which is generically prescribed as rabeprazole, is commonly used to treat stomach ulcers, gastroesophageal reflux disease, or other stomach acid conditions. Aciphex reduces the stomach acid production. Aciphex is not appropriate for everyone more...
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Actos is commonly used to treat blood sugar levels in patients with diabetes. Generically prescribed as poiglitazone, this medication is not recommended for patients with type 1 diabetes. Rather, it is an oral medication that is used for patients with Typ more...
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Acuretic is a popular prescribed drug that functions by keeping the kidney from retaining too much water. Commonly called HCT, Acuretic is a water pill that allows the kidney to release excess water and sodium through the urine. Acuretic is often prescri more...
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Acyclovir, which is commonly prescribed as Zovirax, is typically used in the treatment of herpes. Herpes treatment includes genital herpes, shingles, herpes encephalitis, and herpes with people with compromised immune systems. Acyclovir is a member of the more...
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Adalat is often used in its generic form, nifedipine, and is a member of the family of medications known as calcium channel blockers. Adalat is commonly used to treat chest pain and hypertension, as well as some other heart conditions. Calcium channel blo more...
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Adalat SR can be generically prescribed as nifedipine. Adalat SR is used in the treatment of hypertension and angina, as it opens and relaxes tight blood vessels creating less work for the heart to pump the blood sufficiently to meet the body’s needs. Pat more...
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Patients who are problematic with their acnes must be familiar with Adapalene, a popular treatment for that particular skin condition. Adapalene has retinoid-like compounds, which prevents anymore pimples from forming on the skin’s surface. It comes in ge more...
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Adekin is a brand name for the generic drug amantidine, a drug that is given for the treatment of two diverse illnesses: Parkinson’s and influenza. Where it is given for the treatment of Parkinson’s, it can be used alone for patients who have low toleran more...
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Albendazole is an antihelminitic drug. Medicines considered in this group are effective in battling worm manifestations. As such, Albendazole is a preventive drug for worms to grow and multiply inside your body, leading to other illnesses. It is mostly us more...
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Albenza, which is generically prescribed as albendazole, is commonly used to treat infections caused by worms, such as dog tapeworm or pork tapeworm. Albenza is a member of the family of drugs known as antihelmintics. Albenza prevents worms from multiplyi more...
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Asthmatic patients are all too familiar with Albuterol. It is one of their helplines when breathing difficulty, chest tightness, and wheezing occurs. Albuterol works by relaxing the muscles in the air passageways to improve breathing. It is also effective more...
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Aldactone, which is generically prescribed as spironolactone, is commonly used to conditions where the body has too much aldosterone in the body. Aldactone is a potassium sparing diuretic which prevents the body from absorbing too much salt and keeps the more...
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Aldara, which is generically prescribed as imiquimod topical, is commonly used to treat variations of genital warts, perianal warts and warty overgrowths which occur on the face, scalp, or neck which are known as actinic warts. Aldara is also used in the more...
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Osteoporosis naturally comes with aging for people who had been deaf to their daily calcium needs while they were young. Your lifestyle might be a high risk factor to osteoporosis, especially if it is constricting in a sense that you lack activity. Yes, o more...
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Alesse, which is generically prescribed as ethynil estradiol and levonorgestrel, is commonly used as a contraceptive to prevent pregnancy. This medication prevents ovulation and alters the lining of the uterine wall and causes alterations in cervical muco more...
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Alfacalcidol is basically Vitamin D. It is used in both adults and children to treat Vitamin D deficiency that leads to serious bone defects like osteomalacia and rickets.
Vitamin D deficiency is sometimes caused by a person’s lifestyle. The D vitamin is more...
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Alfacip is used to treat osteoporosis, bone loss due to age, steroid or other medication use. Osteoporosis means “porous bones,” and it causes bones to become weak and brittle. Sometimes they become so brittle that even mild stresses can result in more...
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Allegra, which is generically prescribed as fexofenadine, is commonly used to treat the symptoms of allergies. It blocks the histamine that causes itching, watery eyes, runny nose, sneezing, and coughing. It is a member of the family of medication more...
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Allegra D 24 hour is generically prescribed as fexofenadine and psudoephedrine. Allegra D 24 hour is commonly used to treat the symptoms of allergies such as sneezing, coughing, runny nose, and itchy, watery eyes. Allegra D 24 hour is both an antihistamin more...
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Allopurinol is the generic name for a medication that also goes by the brand name Zyloprim. It is prescribed for patients who have primary or secondary gout, and for patients with elevated levels of serum and urinary acidic levels, such as those receiving more...
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Bearing a life underneath a woman’s tummy is such a wonderful occurrence. However, different conditions may threaten the general health of both the mother and the child. Some fetuses give up on the first trimester period, some on the second trimester, and more...
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Alphagan can be generically prescribed as brimonidine ophthalmic. It is usually prescribed to treat open angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension.A;phagan is designed to help fluid drain effectively from eye while averting more fluid from entering the eye, more...
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Altace is generically prescribed as ramipril and is most often used in the treatment of high blood pressure. Altace is known as an ACE inhibitor which means angiotensin converting enzyme. Altace is sometimes given to patients after a heart attack to impro more...
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Amadol is a brand name for the generic medication tramadol. It is a pain reliever, used to treat or to prevent pain, whether it is moderate or severe. It is also used specifically for the relief of back pain, neuropathic pain, surgical pain, the pain ca more...
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Amaryl is prescribed for patients with diabetes who can not control their blood sugar levels through diet alone. Generically known as glimepiride, this medication is usually combined with an exercise program and diet to treat non-insulin dependent (type 2 more...
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Ambien is a brand name for the generic drug zolpidem tartrate. It is prescribed in tablets for short-term treatment of insomnia.
Ambien can cause severe adverse reactions including allergic shock, abnormal thinking or behavior, withdrawal effects, memor more...
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Your body usually balances the chemicals it produces, however sometimes it needs some help from outside forces. Amiloride is used specially to counteract hypertension and congestive heart failure. Usually these diseases come about from an overload of sodi more...
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Depression is a serious disease, and only recently have scientists been able to treat it with proper medication. Thanks to modern medicine the chemical imbalance that occurs in people that makes them depressed is easily corrected. Amineurin is an example more...
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Amitriptyline is an effective and popular drug that battles depression. In medical terms it is called a tricyclic antidepressant drug. By inhibiting the serotonin and the noradrenaline reuptake in a person’s body, Amitriptyline actually drives up the leve more...
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Amlodipine is what is known as a channel blocker, more specifically it is a calcium channel blocker. It is used mainly for chest pain, also called angina, and high blood pressure. Since calcium makes the arteries contract and it causes the arteries to bec more...
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Amoxicillin is the generic form of antibiotics which are also prescribed as Morisot, Amoxil, Biomox, Dispermox, Trimox, and Wymox. It is commonly used to treat bacterial infections in the body. Infections such as gonorrhea, skin infection, tooth infection more...
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Amoxil is a popular and effective antibiotic. It is usually used to fight bacterial infections like ear infections, throat infections, pneumonia, bladder infections, gonorrhea, E. coli, and salmonella infections. Amoxil actually attacks the cellular struc more...
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Ampicillin is a form of generic penicillin which is sometimes prescribed as Omnipen, Totacillin, or Principen. Ampicillin should be avoided by patients who have had an allergic reaction to penicillin based antibiotics. Ampicillin is prescribed to f more...
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Anafranil, which is generically prescribed as clomipramine, is commonly used to treat the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder by affecting the chemicals in the brain that become unbalanced. Anafranil is a tricyclic antidepressant. Tricyclic antidepr more...
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Anaprox is a brand name for naproxen sodium, a medication used to relieve pain and inflammation in various conditions. These can include head aches, muscle aches, back aches, tendonitis, tooth ache, menstrual cramps, arthritis, bursitis, gout, fever, and more...
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Anastrozole is mainly used in hormonal therapy to help treat breast cancer. It is distributed worldwide under the brand name Armidex. It works in keeping the big C in check especially for women in their post-menopausal stage by regulating the amount of es more...
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Ansaid is commonly prescribed to alleviate the pain and inflammation associated with arthritis. Ansaid is part of the family of medications known as NSAID pain relievers, or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, which target the hormones in the body which more...
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Antiadipositum is a short-term weight loss medication that also goes by the names Norpseudoephedrine, Fauspond, Exponcit N, Vita-Schlanktropfen Schuck, Mirapront-N. It is in a class of drugs called anorexics, which means that it suppresses the appetite. more...
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Antivert, which is generically prescribed as meclizine, is commonly used to treat the effects of motion sickness such as nausea, vomiting, and dizziness. In some cases it has been proven to help in treating vertigo. Antivert is a member of the family of more...
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Aralen is a brand name for the medication chloroquine phosphate, and is given as a preventative and a treatment for most forms of malaria, an infection of the red blood cells spread by mosquito bites. It is also given for amebiasis, an infection by certa more...
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Arava is commonly prescribed for patients with rheumatoid arthritis to help decrease the inflammation, pain, and damage caused by rheumatoid arthritis. Arava, which is generically prescribed as leflunomide, targets the immune system to achieve the reducti more...
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Arcalion is a brand name for sulbutiamine, and can come in tablet form, gel capsule, or loose powder that many people measure or capsulize for themselves. It is usually taken in the morning, with effects that last all day. more...
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Arcoxia is generically prescribed as etoricoxib and is commonly used in the treatment of osteoarthritis and arthritis pain. Arcoxia is a member of the family of drugs known as COX 2 inhibitors which selectively inhibits the pain receptors in the brain. Ar more...
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Medical conditions suffered through old age are quite many. That is why a lot of people feared old age. However, this should not be the case. If you are well aware of the methods you can use to free yourself of old age symptoms, you need not to worry abou more...
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Asacol is a brand name for mesalamine, a medication given for the treatment of ulcerative colitis. Ulcerative colitis is an inflammation of the inner lining of the rectum and colon characterized by periods of remission. Symptoms alternate between flare- more...
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Ascorbic Acid is an important vitamin that helps develop the skeletal system. It also aids in the body’s absorption of iron. It is basically a sugar acid that carries essential antioxidant properties. Ascorbic Acid is more commonly known as Vitamin C. Ins more...
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Astelin, also generically known as azelastine nasal, is commonly used to prevent or reduce sneezing, runny nose, itchy eyes and other allergy symptoms. The drug commonly is prescribed in the form of a nasal spray. more...
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Atacand is sometimes prescribed as candesartan and is commonly used in the treatment of high blood pressure and heart failure. Atacand is an angiotensin II receptor antagonist, which help keep blood vessels and arteries from narrowing. Because Atacand can more...
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Atarax, which is generically prescribed as hydroxyzine, is commonly used to treat anxiety disorders, provide relief from intense short term stress, and can be used to treat allergies, especially those which affect the skin. more...
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Atehexal is a brand name for the generic drug atenolol. It is in a class of drugs called beta-blockers, and is given for the treatment of hypertension, or high blood pressure, for coronary heart disease an the prevention of angina attacks, for prevention more...
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Atemur is a brand name for the generic drug fluticasone. It is in a class of medications known as corticosteroids and is used to prevent the symptoms of asthma, and to ease the symptoms of COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. If you use it ev more...
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Ativan, which is generically prescribed as Lorazepam, is commonly used to treat anxiety disorders, or can be used as a PRN dose for severe anxiety brought on by sudden trauma. Patients should avoid alcohol while taking Ativan. Patients should be made awar more...
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Atomoxetine is a prescribed oral medication used to treat, or as a part of a program to treat, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). It is a non-stimulant drug that falls under the medication class called selective norepinephrine uptake inhibit more...
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Atorvastatin is the generic form of Lipitor. This medication is most often used in the treatment of high cholesterol with a combination of exercise and diet therapy. Atorvastatin is also prescribed to reduce low density lipoprotein cholesterol in t more...
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Atropisol has many uses in the medical community. When Atropisol is prescribed orally it may be used prior to anesthesia to reduce or prevent secretions of the respiratory tract, treatment for parkinsonsism, treatment of peptic ulcers, treatment of bed-w more...
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Atrovent is a brand name for the generic medication ipratropium bromide. It is used to treat difficulty breathing due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which can include chronic bronchitis and emphysema. It is also used to prevent painful more...
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Avandia can be generically prescribed as rosiglitazone and is a common medication used to help treat type 2 diabetes in conjunction with diet and exercise. Avandia is an oral diabetes medication that may be mixed with insulin to help control blood sugar l more...
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Avapro is most commonly used to treat high blood pressure, and can also be used in the treatment of kidney diseases, especially in patients with diabetes. Avapro can be generically prescribed as irbesartan. Avapro is considered an angiotensin II receptor more...
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Aygestin is a brand name for the generic drug norethindrone acetate. It is a combination of estrogen and progestin which is prescribed for the treatment of the absence of menstrual periods, irregular periods due to a hormonal imbalance, endometriosis, an more...
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Azathioprine is an immunosuppressant, which means it is a drug whose purpose is to weaken the immune system. It is the generic name for a drug that goes under the brand names Imuran, Azasan, and Azamun, and is available in tablet form, as an injection, or more...
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Azithromycin is an antibiotic that falls under the macrolide type. It is a prescription orally ingested drug. One of the world’s highest-selling medicines, Azithromycin is used for curing infections caused by bacteria, such as certain Sexually Transmitted more...
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Azur is a brand name for a pain reliever that combines three major ingredients: paracetamol, coffeine, and codeine. Paracetamol is used in the treatment of mild to moderate pain, and for reducing fever. The caffeine involved increases the pulse rate an more...
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