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clot-dissolving drug

(Encyclopedia)clot-dissolving drug: see thrombolytic drug. ...

anti-impotence drug

(Encyclopedia)anti-impotence drug: see impotence. ...

Food and Drug Administration

(Encyclopedia)Food and Drug Administration (FDA), agency of the Public Health Service division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is charged with protecting public health by ensuring that foods...

nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug

(Encyclopedia)nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, a drug that suppresses inflammation in a manner similar to steroids, but without the side effects of steroids; commonly referred to by the acronym NSAID ĕnˈsĕd ...

Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

(Encyclopedia)Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: see food adulteration. ...

Domagk, Gerhard

(Encyclopedia)Domagk, Gerhard gĕrˈhärt dōˈmäk [key], 1895–1964, German chemist and pathologist. A teacher successively at the universities of Greifswald and Münster, he became (1927) director of research a...

Bovet, Daniele

(Encyclopedia)Bovet, Daniele bōvāˈ [key], 1907–92, Italian pharmacologist, b. Switzerland, D.Sc. Univ. of Geneva, 1929. From 1929 to 1947 he was a researcher and then head of the laboratory of therapeutic chem...

Kelsey, Frances Oldham

(Encyclopedia)Kelsey, Frances Oldham, 1914–2015, Canadian-American pharmacologist, b. Cobble Hill, British Columbia, as Frances Kathleen Oldham, grad. McGill Univ. (B.Sc. 1934, M.Sc. 1935), Univ. of Chicago (Ph.D...

isoniazid

(Encyclopedia)isoniazid īˌsōnīˈəzĭd [key], drug used to treat tuberculosis. Also known as isonicotinic acid hydrazide, isoniazid is the most effective antituberculosis drug currently available. The drug inhi...

addiction

(Encyclopedia)addiction: see drug addiction and drug abuse. ...