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  2. List of drugs by year of discovery - Wikipedia

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    Year of discovery Name of the drug Year when the synthesis mechanism was developed Year that was Patented Governmental approval Patented expired 1901: Adrenaline: Jōkichi Takamine, 1901: 1901: 1901: N/A (Natural Hormone) 1906: Oxytocin: Discovered by Henry Hallett Dale, synthesized by Vincent du Vigneaud in 1952: 1925: 1926: N/A (Natural ...

  3. Lists of drugs - Wikipedia

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    There are many hundreds of thousands of possible drugs. Any chemical substance with biological activity may be considered a drug. This list categorises drugs alphabetically and also by other categorisations. This multi-page article lists pharmaceutical drugs alphabetically by name. Many drugs have more than one name and, therefore, the same ...

  4. Drug discovery - Wikipedia

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    Despite the rise of combinatorial chemistry as an integral part of lead discovery process, natural products still play a major role as starting material for drug discovery. [56] A 2007 report [ 57 ] found that of the 974 small molecule new chemical entities developed between 1981 and 2006, 63% were natural derived or semisynthetic derivatives ...

  5. History of aspirin - Wikipedia

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    Ethical drugs were drugs that could be obtained only through a pharmacist, usually with a doctor's prescription. Advertising drugs directly to consumers was considered unethical and strongly opposed by many medical organizations; that was the domain of patent medicines. Therefore, Bayer was limited to marketing Aspirin directly to doctors.

  6. History of LSD - Wikipedia

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    It was set aside for five years, until April 16, 1943, when Hofmann decided to take a second look at it. While re-synthesizing LSD, he accidentally absorbed a small amount of the drug and discovered its powerful effects. [4] [5] He described what he felt as being: ... affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness.

  7. Category:Drug discovery - Wikipedia

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    Dirty drug; Discovery and development of 5α-reductase inhibitors; Discovery and development of antiandrogens; Discovery and development of bisphosphonates; Discovery and development of cephalosporins; Discovery and development of direct Xa inhibitors; Discovery and development of integrase inhibitors; Discovery and development of statins

  8. List of diseases by year of discovery - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of diseases by year of discovery. Year Disease Discoverer 2600 BC: Malaria [1] 1900 BC: ... List of drugs; List of drugs by year of discovery;

  9. Discovery and development of beta-blockers - Wikipedia

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    The β-blockers are an immensely important class of drugs due to their high prevalence of use. The discovery of β-blockers reaches back to more than 100 years ago, when early investigators came up with the idea that catecholamines were binding selectively to receptor-like structures and that this was the cause of their pharmacological actions. [3]