Ideas used to name, sort and regulate medicines, such as what counts as a medication, how drug classes are formed, the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical system, botanical and proprietary drugs, lifestyle drugs and drugs of last resort. An entry belongs here when its own source explains how medicines are defined, grouped or classed. It excludes any single drug and the routes by which drugs are given. Each member is a pharmacological therapy entry that the atlas covers as a subject in its own right, placed here on what its cited article says it is and how it is used, never on its name alone.
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Medication (Wikipedia)
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Medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal product, medicinal drug, or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.
Drug class (Wikipedia)
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A drug class is a group of medications and other compounds that share similar chemical structures, act through the same mechanism of action (i.e., binding to the same biological target), have similar modes of action, and/or are used to treat similar diseases.
Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System (Wikipedia)
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The Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Classification System is a drug classification system that classifies the active ingredients of drugs according to the organ or system on which they act and their therapeutic, pharmacological and chemical properties.
Botanical drug (Wikipedia)
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A botanical drug is defined in the United States Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act as a botanical product that is marketed as diagnosing, mitigating, treating, or curing a disease; a botanical product in turn, is a finished, labeled product that contains ingredients from plants.
Proprietary drug (Wikipedia)
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Proprietary drugs are chemicals used for medicinal purposes which are formulated or manufactured under a name protected from competition through trademark or patent.
Lifestyle drug (Wikipedia)
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Lifestyle drug is an imprecise term commonly applied to medications which treat non-life-threatening and non-painful conditions such as baldness, wrinkles, erectile dysfunction, or acne, which the speaker perceives as either not medical problems at all or as minor medical conditions relative to others.
Drug of last resort (Wikipedia)
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A drug of last resort (DoLR), also known as a heroic dose, is a pharmaceutical drug which is tried after all other drug options have failed to produce an adequate response in the patient.
Over-the-counter drug (Wikipedia)
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Over-the-counter (OTC) drugs are medicines sold directly to a consumer without a requirement for a prescription from a healthcare professional, as opposed to prescription drugs, which may be supplied only to consumers possessing a valid prescription.
Me-too drug (Wikipedia)
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The term "me-too drug" or "follow-on drug" refers to a medication that is similar to a pre-existing drug, usually by making minor modifications to the prototype, reflected in slight changes in the profiles of side effects or activity, and used to treat conditions for which drugs already exist.
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