Medication and Pharmacology Terms

A type of anticancer drug that blocks cell growth by interfering with DNA, the genetic material in cells.

A drug used to treat infections caused by bacteria and parasites.

Damping dopamine quiets hallucinations and delusions, but the same block reaches movement and hormone pathways, which is where the side effects begin.

A type of drug used to treat symptoms of psychosis.

Describes a drug or effect that works against tuberculosis (a contagious bacterial infection that usually affects the lungs).

A type of anticancer drug that blocks cell growth by interfering with DNA, the genetic material in cells.

Narrow by design: a drug that halts one virus usually does nothing whatsoever against an unrelated one.

An anxiolytic is a medication used to relieve anxiety symptoms, most familiarly a benzodiazepine that enhances a calming brain chemical's effect.

A drug used to treat symptoms of anxiety, such as feelings of fear, dread, uneasiness, and muscle tightness, that may occur as a reaction to stress.

A substance being studied in the treatment of soft tissue and bone cancers.

A substance being studied in the treatment of head and neck cancer.

A drug used to treat prostate cancer that has spread.

A drug used to control the amount of sugar in the blood of patients with diabetes mellitus.

A drug used with another drug, ritonavir, to treat patients who are infected with HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) and have been treated with other anti-HIV drugs.

Lowering the estrogen supply is not the same as blocking its receptor, and that difference decides who the drug can help.

Aspirin is a widely used medication that relieves pain and fever, reduces inflammation, and inhibits platelet clumping to limit blood clot formation.

A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of cancer.

A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of cancer.

A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.

Most of the fall in blood cholesterol comes not from making less but from the liver clearing more of it out of the circulation.