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In medical technologies, J&J's major franchises include interventional solutions, orthopedics, surgery, and vision. [1] Heart and Cardiac. Abiomed. Ear, nose and throat ( Acclarent) (2010–2024) Eustachian Tube Balloon Dilation System [2] Navigation Balloon Dilation System [3]
Contains extensive information on over-the-counter drugs and their responsible use, including specific guidance on several drug classes in question-and-answer format and information on common drug interactions. UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency list of substances on general sales list Archived 2014-03-07 at the Wayback Machine
MedlinePlus is an online information service produced by the United States National Library of Medicine. The service provides curated consumer health information in English and Spanish with select content in additional languages. [ 1][ 2] The site brings together information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes ...
Formulary (pharmacy) A formulary is a list of pharmaceutical drugs, often decided upon by a group of people, for various reasons such as insurance coverage or use at a medical facility. [ 1] Traditionally, a formulary contained a collection of formulas for the compounding and testing of medication (a resource closer to what would be referred to ...
The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (aka Essential Medicines List or EML[ 1] ), published by the World Health Organization (WHO), contains the medications considered to be most effective and safe to meet the most important needs in a health system. [ 2] The list is frequently used by countries to help develop their own local lists of ...
Pharmacotherapy. Pharmacotherapy, also known as pharmacological therapy or drug therapy, is defined as medical treatment that utilizes one or more pharmaceutical drugs to improve ongoing symptoms (symptomatic relief), treat the underlying condition, or act as a prevention for other diseases ( prophylaxis ). [ 1]
Specialty drugs cover over forty therapeutic categories and special disease states with over 500 drugs. [4] Vogenberg claims that there is no standard definition of a specialty drug which is one of the reasons they are difficult to manage. [6] "[T]hose pharmaceuticals that usually require special handling, administration, unique inventory ...
Drug nomenclature. Drug nomenclature is the systematic naming of drugs, especially pharmaceutical drugs. In the majority of circumstances, drugs have 3 types of names: chemical names, the most important of which is the IUPAC name; generic or nonproprietary names, the most important of which are international nonproprietary names (INNs); and ...