Ketamine is an anesthetic used in hospitals, operating rooms, and emergency care to put patients into a dissociated, pain-free state. In the United States its ...
Isoflurane is a volatile anesthetic gas used to keep patients unconscious during surgery. It is a liquid that anesthesiologists vaporize and deliver through a breathing ...
Loperamide is an over-the-counter and prescription medicine that slows the gut to stop diarrhea. Imodium A-D is its best-known brand name; store brands and generics ...
Biperiden (brand name Akineton) is an anticholinergic medicine used to reduce the stiffness and tremor of parkinsonism and to control the movement side effects that ...
Mesna (brand name Mesnex) is a protective medicine given with certain chemotherapy drugs to shield the bladder. Its one FDA-approved job is to reduce the ...
Pentamidine is an antimicrobial medicine used mainly to prevent and treat Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP), a serious lung infection that affects people with weakened immune systems, ...
Eflornithine is one molecule with three very different jobs. As Vaniqa cream, it slows the growth of unwanted facial hair in women. As Iwilfin tablets, ...
Sulfasalazine is a prescription anti-inflammatory medicine used mainly for ulcerative colitis and, in its enteric-coated form, for rheumatoid arthritis. Azulfidine is the brand name. The ...
Sulfasalazine reduces the body’s absorption of folic acid, an FDA-documented drug interaction that’s specifically relevant during pregnancy planning, since folic acid supplementation is known to ...
Nifurtimox is an antiparasitic medicine used against two tropical diseases. In the United States, it is sold as Lampit and approved for one purpose: treating ...
