Medication and Pharmacology Terms

Describes side effects of a drug or other treatment that are serious enough to prevent an increase in dose or level of that treatment.

One receptor sits in two very different places, which is how a single tablet ended up treating both blood pressure and prostate symptoms.

A drug used to treat high blood pressure and urinary problems caused by an enlarged prostate.

A substance being studied in the prevention of recurrent prostate cancer.

A drug that is used to treat many types of cancer and is being studied in the treatment of other types of cancer.

A drug that is used to treat many types of cancer and is being studied in the treatment of other types of cancer.

A form of the anticancer drug doxorubicin that is contained in very tiny, fat-like particles.

One of the few antibiotics that reaches organisms living inside human cells, which is why tick-borne and atypical infections come back to it.

One word doing two jobs, respectable and illicit, which is why regulators and clinicians often reach for medicine or medication instead.

A drug interaction alters a medication's effect when combined with another substance, potentially strengthening, weakening, or otherwise changing its action.

The failure of cancer cells, viruses, or bacteria to respond to a drug used to kill or weaken them.

The formal name for treating illness with medicines, whatever the route and whatever the outcome being sought.

An anticancer drug formed by the combination of diphtheria toxin and a colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF).

One drug licensed across mood and pain, duloxetine works partly through spinal cord pathways that damp pain signals before they reach the brain.

Prostate growth depends on a hormone built from testosterone, and this drug shuts down the enzyme that performs the conversion.

An anticancer drug that is a type of antitumor antibiotic.

An anticancer drug that is a type of topoisomerase inhibitor.

A two-in-one water pill, pairing a diuretic that wastes potassium with one that conserves it.

A monoclonal antibody used to prevent red blood cells from being destroyed in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), a red blood cell disorder.

Built as a close chemical relative of methotrexate, it was designed to enter cells more readily and was tested in cancer without reaching approval.