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Pharmaceutical Drugs
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Revision as of 16:32, 10 December 2010
The Pharmaceutical industry is one of the world’s largest industries, grossing well over $300 billion in the United States alone. Understanding how the drugs the pharma industry develops work and different characteristics of these compounds is important to nearly everyone as 50% of the US population takes at least one prescription medication regularly and nearly everyone takes a pharmaceutical pill at some point in their life.[1] The following is a growing list of pharmaceutical compounds organized by disorder.
See Pharmaceutical Drug Targets for a list of drug targets organized by disease.
Treatments
The following is a list of pharmaceutical treatments for various diseases, organized by disorder. Each entry highlights general information about the therapeutic, pharmacokinetic data comparisons within its drug class, and a structural analysis explaining how the drug compound functions in vivo.
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Tamoxifen
Cozaar
Januvia
Azithromycin
Puromycin
Tamiflu
Relenza
Teleprevir
Rituxan
Arzerra
Taxol
Lipoderm
Paxil
Viagra
Cialis
Celebrex
Vioxx
References
- ↑ http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/09/03/129626052/a-portrait-of-health-prescription-drugs-in-america
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