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This is the list of Schedule IV controlled substances in the United States as defined by the Controlled Substances Act. [1] The following findings are required for substances to be placed in this schedule: [2] The drug or other substance has a low potential for abuse relative to the drugs or other substances in schedule III.
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 drug may be listed more than once.
Warfarin, sold under the brand name Coumadin among others, is an anticoagulant medication. [12] While the drug is described as a "blood thinner", it does not reduce viscosity but rather prevents blood clots ( thrombus ) from forming ( coagulating ).
Drugs approved after June 24, 1938, but before 1962 had a limited time to be reviewed for efficacy to remain on the market. This was known as the Drug Efficacy Study Implementation (DESI). As of today there are only a handful of drugs still on the DESI list [61] and in 2006, the FDA stated it was not aware of any grandfathered drugs. [62]
Evaluation or interactions are often classified in the following categories: [6] Clinical abuse/misuse; Drug-disease contraindications (when a prescribed drug should not be used with certain diseases) Drug-dosage modification; Drug-drug interactions (when two or more different drugs interact and alter their intended effects and may cause ...
The use of commonly prescribed drugs can be reflected from the number of prescriptions of the drugs. Countries have their own dataset in recording the trend of commonly prescribed drugs. For example, the United States uses the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) [ 1 ] and England uses the English Prescribing Dataset [ 2 ] to record the ...
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 trade names, which are brand names. [1]
This list of over 500 monoclonal antibodies includes approved and investigational drugs as well as drugs that have been withdrawn from market; consequently, the column Use does not necessarily indicate clinical usage. See the list of FDA-approved therapeutic monoclonal antibodies in the monoclonal antibody therapy page.