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In pharmaceutical sciences, drug interactions occur when a drug's mechanism of action is affected by the concomitant administration of substances such as foods, beverages, or other drugs. A popular example of drug-food interaction is the effect of grapefruit in the metabolism of drugs. Interactions may occur by simultaneous targeting of ...
e. Orlistat (Xenical), the most commonly used medication to treat obesity and sibutramine (Meridia), a medication that was withdrawn due to cardiovascular side effects. Anti-obesity medication or weight loss medications are pharmacological agents that reduce or control excess body fat. These medications alter one of the fundamental processes of ...
Dosage forms (also called unit doses) are pharmaceutical drug products in the form in which they are marketed for use, with a specific mixture of active ingredients and inactive components ( excipients ), in a particular configuration (such as a capsule shell, for example), and apportioned into a particular dose.
Templates are pages that are embedded (transcluded) into other pages to allow for the repetition of information. Wikipedia:List of infoboxes for infoboxes, which are small panels that summarize key features of the page's subject. Wikipedia:Requested templates, to request creation of a template. Use this form to search in the Template: or ...
Graphic from the World Health Organization describing the main ingredients typically in vaccines. A vaccine dose contains many ingredients (stabilizers, adjuvants, residual inactivating ingredients, residual cell culture materials, residual antibiotics and preservatives) very little of which is the active ingredient, the immunogen. A single ...
This template is used to configure the articles found in the Selected ingredient section found on some Wikipedia Portal main pages. Used it on the article pages that are linked to the Selected ingredient sub-page, e.g. Portal:Foo/Selected ingredient/1 For the quickest and easiest way to create the Portal:Foo/Selected bar sub-page and related article links, use one of the {{Numbered subpages ...
Kaopectate is an orally taken medication from Arcadia Consumer Healthcare for the treatment of mild diarrhea. It is also sometimes used to treat indigestion, nausea, and stomach ulcers. The active ingredients have varied over time, and are different between the United States and Canada. The original active ingredients were kaolinite and pectin.
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, Vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (UK: / ˌ s æ̃ t ɪ ɡ ˈ z uː p ɛr i /, US: /-ɡ z uː p eɪ ˈ r iː /, French: [ɑ̃twan də sɛ̃t‿ɛɡzypeʁi]; 29 June 1900 – c. 31 July 1944), was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.