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Simeprevir
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB06290ApprovedWithdrawnor second-line threapies for treatment-naïve patients as adjunct to sofosbuvir treatment for genotype 1 or PEG-Interferon/ribavirin combination therapy for genotype 1 or 4. … According to 2017 American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and 2015 consensus guidelines from the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver (CASL), simeprevir can be used as first-line
Technetium Tc-99m tetrofosmin
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB09160ApprovedTechnetium Tc-99m tetrofosmin is a drug used in nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging. … It is a lipophilic technetium phosphine dioxo cation that was formulated into a freeze-dried kit which yields an injection.
Categories: Compounds used in a research, industrial, or household settingAcarbose
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB00284ApprovedInvestigationalAcarbose is therefore used in conjunction with diet, exercise, and other pharmacotherapies for the management of blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes. … Acarbose is a complex oligosaccharide that acts as an inhibitor of several enzymes responsible for the breakdown of complex carbohydrates in the intestines.
Categories: Drugs Used in DiabetesFinasteride
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB01216ApprovedInvestigational[L6244,L10565] In 1998, it was approved by the FDA to treat male pattern hair loss. … It works in a similar fashion as [dutasteride], which is another 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor, by exerting antiandrogenic effects.
Categories: Drugs Used in Benign Prostatic HypertrophyPotassium bicarbonate
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB11098ApprovedInvestigationalIt is used in medicine as an antacid.[T141] It is registered in the FDA under the section of suitable, safe and effective ingredients for OTC antacids. … Potassium bicarbonate is a white, crystalline, slightly alkaline and salty substance. It is produced by the passage of carbon dioxide through an aqueous potassium carbonate solution.
Mixtures: Multi-min Electro C Pow Plus B2Mifamurtide
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB13615ApprovedInvestigationalWhile about 90% of patients with newly diagnosed osteosarcoma may achieve complete remission from first-line therapies, the prognosis is still poor for patients with non-metastatic osteosarcoma with lower … Osteosarcoma is the most common primary malignant bone tumor that usually arises in the metaphyses of long bone in children and adolescents [A31744].
Thimerosal
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB11590ApprovedAlthough thimerosal is banned in several countries, it continues to be included as a preservative in some vaccines in the United States and many vaccines in the developing world [L1685]. … Developed in 1927, thimerosal has been and is still being used as a preservative in some cosmetics, topical pharmaceuticals, and biological drug products, which includes vaccines.
Categories: Compounds used in a research, industrial, or household settingAcetrizoic acid
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB09347ApprovedWithdrawn[A32135] It was first synthesized by Wallingford in 1953[A32136] and it was filled in the FDA by the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, Cilag Chemie AG, on February 8th, 1978. … [L1704] Acetrizoic acid presents, in the FDA records, a category of drug substance with an inactive status.[L1703]
Categories: Compounds used in a research, industrial, or household settingGallium Ga-68 gozetotide
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB16019ApprovedInvestigationalpositive lesions in men with prostate cancer. … [L43542] In December of the same year, the drug was fully authorized by the EMA.[L44682] In Octer 2022, Ga-68 PSMA-11 was approved by Health Canada for diagnostic use in men with prostate cancer.
Categories: Compounds used in a research, industrial, or household settingAfamelanotide
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB04931ApprovedFDA approval in October 2019. … [A187202,A187205] Afamelanotide is currently the only approved drug therapy used in the management of erythropoietic protoporphyria, having received approval in the EU in December 2014[L9119] and subsequent
Categories: Compounds used in a research, industrial, or household settingSynonyms: MT-I, Melanotan I