Sensory Organs

Medicines aimed at the eye and the ear, grouped together as Group S of the WHO Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical classification, which covers the sensory organs. The group includes eye drops and ointments for glaucoma, infection and inflammation, treatments for diseases of the retina, and ear preparations. Belongs here: drugs and gene or cell therapies whose recorded use is a condition of the eye or the ear, including products placed inside the eye. Does not belong here: medicines for the nervous pathways that carry sight and hearing to the brain, which sit under Nervous System Agents, and general antibiotics given by mouth or injection, which sit under Antiinfective Agents for Systemic Use.