topotecan hydrochloride
A drug used to treat certain types of ovarian cancer, lung cancer, and cervical cancer.
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An opioid painkiller with a second action on brain chemistry, which accounts for both its usefulness and its unusual risks.
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A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.
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A form of carnitine that reaches the brain, sold as a supplement and studied mostly for nerve damage and memory.
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A supplement form of carnitine tested against chemotherapy nerve damage, where the largest trial found the nerve injury worse rather than better.
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An anti-sickness injection that holds onto its receptor far longer than the older drugs in the same class.
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A colorless building block that tumor cells convert into a red-glowing pigment, used both to reveal tissue and to destroy it.
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Better known today for nerve pain, migraine and sleep than for depression, this older antidepressant acts on a wide range of receptors.
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A blood pressure tablet that works from inside the brain, quieting the nerve traffic that keeps vessels tight.
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An old blood pressure drug also used for ADHD, tics, hot flashes and opioid withdrawal, all through the same calming action on nerve traffic.
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Among the most effective rhythm drugs available and among the most toxic, because it lodges in the tissues for months.
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One of the original red chemotherapies, still central to leukemia treatment and capped for life because the heart does not recover from it.
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A drug displaced by its own breakdown product, which relieves no pain, lingers longer than the parent drug, and irritates the nervous system.
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DHEA is a steroid hormone made mainly by the adrenal glands that serves as a building block for testosterone and estrogen.
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DHT is a potent hormone derived from testosterone that drives male sexual development and contributes to prostate enlargement and pattern hair loss.
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One drug licensed across mood and pain, duloxetine works partly through spinal cord pathways that damp pain signals before they reach the brain.
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A two-in-one water pill, pairing a diuretic that wastes potassium with one that conserves it.
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A daily tablet that switches off a growth signal on the cancer cell surface, working best where one specific mutation is present.
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Fluphenazine is a first generation antipsychotic medication used mainly to manage schizophrenia and other conditions involving psychosis.
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The original brand of terazosin, a tablet built up in stages because its early doses can drop blood pressure abruptly.
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