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Dexamethasone

Dexamethasone, or MK-125, is a corticosteroid fluorinated at position 9 used to treat endocrine, rheumatic, collagen, dermatologic, allergic, ophthalmic, gastrointestinal, respiratory, hematologic, neoplastic … [L10695] In a press release for the Randomized Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) trial on 16 June 2020, dexamethasone was recommended for use in COVID-19 patients with severe respiratory symptoms

Nirmatrelvir

[L33354] 3CL^PRO is responsible for cleaving polyproteins 1a and 1ab of SARS-CoV-2. … [A234224,A234229,A234234] In 2020, Pfizer was investigating another potential treatment for SARS-CoV-2, [PF-07304814].

Vitamin D

Vitamin D ultimately comprises a group of lipid-soluble secosteroids responsible for a variety of biological effects, some of which include increasing the intestinal absorption of calcium, magnesium, and … Vitamin D plays an essential physiological role in maintaining calcium homeostasis and metabolism.

Andusomeran

Andusomeran is a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine developed for use during the 2023-2024 season.[L40074,L48832,L48837] It is similar to previous mRNA vaccines developed by Moderna (e.g.

Selenium Sulfide

Selenium Sulfide is an antifungal agent as well as a cytostatic agent, slowing the growth of hyperproliferative cells in seborrhea. … Selenium Sulfide is the active ingredient often used in shampoos for the treatment of dandruff, seborrheic dermatitis and tinea capitis, a fungal infection that is primarily a disease of preadolescent

Clobenzorex

Codeine

[A175096] Codeine is utilized as a central analgesic, sedative, hypnotic, antinociceptive, and antiperistaltic agent, and is also recommended in certain diseases with incessant coughing. … Codeine, an opioid analgesic, was originally approved in the US in 1950 and is a drug used to decrease pain by increasing the threshold for pain without impairing consciousness or altering other sensory

Chloramphenicol

An antibiotic first isolated from cultures of _Streptomyces venezuelae_ in 1947 but now produced synthetically. … (From Martindale, The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 29th ed, p106) The FDA has withdrawn all oral drug products containing chloramphenicol, due to the high risk of fatal aplastic anemia associated with this

Pipemidic acid

Pipemidic acid is a quinolone antibacterial agent with activity against various gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.[A275138, A275143]

Gliclazide

It has been classified differently according to its drug properties in which based on its chemical structure, gliclazide is considered a first-generation sulfonylurea due to the structural presence of … a sulfonamide group able to release a proton and the presence of one aromatic group.