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2. Tafamidis - Wikipedia

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   Tafamidis, sold under the brand names Vyndaqel and Vyndamax, [5] is a medication used to delay disease progression in adults with certain forms of transthyretin amyloidosis. It can be used to treat both hereditary forms, familial amyloid cardiomyopathy and familial amyloid polyneuropathy , as well as wild-type transthyretin amyloidosis , which ...

3. List of veterinary drugs - Wikipedia

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   praziquantel – treatment of infestations of the tapeworms Dipylidium caninum, Taenia pisiformis, Echinococcus granulosus; prazosin – sympatholytic used in hypertension and abnormal muscle contractions; prednisolone – glucocorticoid (steroid) used in the management of inflammation and auto-immune disease, primarily in cats

4. Familial amyloid polyneuropathy - Wikipedia

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   In late 2011, the European Medicines Agency approved the transthyretin kinetic stabilizer Tafamidis or Vyndaqel discovered by Jeffery W. Kelly and developed by FoldRx pharmaceuticals (acquired by Pfizer in 2010) for the treatment of FAP based on clinical trial data. Tafamidis (20 mg once daily) slowed the progression of FAP over a 36-month ...

5. Alnylam's Biggest Opportunities - AOL

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   Prior to Vyndaqel, liver transplantation was the only treatment option for FAP, and few patients could afford this expensive and difficult process. Vyndaqel has first-mover advantage and expects ...

6. Carprofen - Wikipedia

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   A 100 mg Rimadyl tablet approximately 19 mm (0.75 in) wide by 8.6 mm (0.34 in) thick, as sold in the USA. Carprofen is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) of the carbazole and propionic acid class that was previously for use in humans and animals but is now only available to veterinarians for prescribing as a supportive treatment for various conditions in animals. [1]

7. A New Pain Medication Could Reinforce the Disastrous ... - AOL

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   A 2018 BMJ study of 568,612 patients who took prescription opioids following surgery found that 5,906, or 1 percent, showed documented signs of "opioid misuse" during the course of the study ...

8. Maropitant - Wikipedia

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   Maropitant is safer than other antiemetics used in veterinary medicine, in part because of its high specificity for its target and thus not binding to other receptors in the central nervous system. [6] Side effects in dogs and cats include hypersalivation, diarrhea, loss of appetite, and vomiting.

9. Patient-controlled analgesia - Wikipedia

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   Disadvantages include the possibility that a patient will use the pain medication non-medically, self-administering the narcotic for its euphoric properties even though the patient's pain is sufficiently controlled. If a PCA device is not programmed properly for the patient this can result in an under-dose or overdose in a medicine. [22]