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The following is a list of celebrity inventors and their patents. (For the purposes of this article, an inventor is a person who has been granted a patent.)After Google released a patent search [1] online in December 2006, a website called Ironic Sans, [2] made the public aware of a number of celebrity patents found through the new patent search engine.
Pliny the Elder, who lived from 23–79 CE, first gave a name to what we now call pills, calling them pilula. [2] Pliny also wrote Naturalis Historia a collection of 38 books and the first pharmacopoea. Pedanius Dioscorides wrote De Materia Medica (c. 40 – 90 CE); this book dominated the area of drug knowledge for some 1500 years until the ...
The internet can't stop talking about the weight-loss effects of Ozempic, which has taken the celebrity world by storm.The medication is typically prescribed for type 2 diabetes to improve blood ...
Post Malone, another celebrity speculated to have taken Ozempic, said in 2023 that he lost 55 lbs. After dropping from 240 lbs. to 185 lbs., he didn’t give any credit to GLP-1 medication for his ...
Drug Trade name Type Main indications Company Sales (USD millions/year) ∆ vs 2014 1 Adalimumab: Humira Biologic Rheumatoid arthritis: AbbVie Inc. 14,012 1,469 2 Ledipasvir/sofosbuvir: Harvoni Small molecule Hepatitis C: Gilead Sciences: 13,864 11,737 3 Etanercept: Enbrel Biologic Rheumatoid arthritis: Amgen. Pfizer. 8,697 4,009 4 Infliximab ...
The best-known member of the anti-cholesterol statin family of drugs, Lipitor is the biggest-selling prescription drug in history. Countless patients at high risk for heart disease have extended ...
E. W. Kemble's "Death's Laboratory" on the cover of Collier's (June 3, 1905). A patent medicine, also known as a proprietary medicine or a nostrum (from the Latin nostrum remedium, or "our remedy") is a commercial product advertised to consumers as an over-the-counter medicine, generally for a variety of ailments, without regard to its actual effectiveness or the potential for harmful side ...
As weight-loss drugs have exploded in popularity this past year, part of the craze has been members of the public wondering which celebrities are on Ozempic. The drug is approved to treat Type 2 ...