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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 ...
E. W. Kemble's "Death's Laboratory" on the cover of the 3 June 1905 edition of Collier's. A patent medicine (sometimes called a proprietary medicine) is a non-prescription medicine or medicinal preparation that is typically protected and advertised by a trademark and trade name, and claimed to be effective against minor disorders and symptoms, [1] [2] [3] as opposed to a prescription drug that ...
For example, an widely used average proprietary drug is 18 times more expensive than a common generic drug. [33] Lyrica, a recent off-patent painkiller for nervous systems, had a sale of 5B USD in 2019, [38] out of the 51.8B USD annual sale of the corresponding company. [39]
Radithor was a patent medicine that is a well-known example of radioactive quackery. It consisted of triple-distilled water containing at a minimum 1 microcurie (37 kBq) each of the radium-226 and 228 isotopes.
Articles relating to patent medicines, commercial products advertised (usually heavily) as an over-the-counter medicine, without regard to its actual effectiveness. Patent medicines are typically characterized as pseudoscientific. [1
Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills was one of the most successful and enduring products to be manufactured and marketed in North America as part of the lucrative patent medicine industry, which thrived during most of the 19th and 20th centuries. Its manufacturer claimed the pills contained herbal ingredients that would help "cleanse the blood," as ...
Controversy over biological patents occurs on many levels, driven by, for example, concern over the expense of patented medicines or diagnostics tests [40] (against Myriad Genetics with respect to their breast cancer diagnostic test), concerns over genetically modified food which comes from patented genetically modified seeds as well as farmer ...
For example, Celexa is a mixture of a left-handed and right-handed version of the same compound ("citalopram"), but only the left-handed version ("es-citalopram") is biologically active. Lexapro, the "me too" drug released several years after Celexa thus extending the patent life, is a purified form of just the left-handed version (the "es" in ...