Here are entered works on the process of observing, recording, or detecting the effects of a drug administered therapeutically or diagnostically to an individual. Works on the detection of adverse effects of medicines in the general population are entered under Pharmacovigilance
Drugs -- Netherlands -- History : Biographies of remedies : drugs, medicines and contraceptives in Dutch and Anglo-American healing cultures / edited by M. Gijswijt-Hofstra, G.M. Van Heteren and E.M. Tansey
Agents that control agitated psychotic behavior, alleviate acute psychotic states, reduce psychotic symptoms, and exert a quieting effect. They are used in SCHIZOPHRENIA; senile dementia; transient psychosis following surgery; or MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; etc. These drugs are often referred to as neuroleptics alluding to the tendency to produce neurological side effects, but not all antipsychotics are likely to produce such effects. Many of these drugs may also be effective against nausea, emesis, and pruritus
Drugs intended to prevent damage to the brain or spinal cord from ischemia, stroke, convulsions, or trauma. Some must be administered before the event, but others may be effective for some time after. They act by a variety of mechanisms, but often directly or indirectly minimize the damage produced by endogenous excitatory amino acids
Drugs -- Nigeria : Mobilizing science-based enterprises for energy, water, and medicines in Nigeria / Committee on Creation of Science-Based Industries in Developing Countries, Development, Security, and Cooperation, Policy and Global Affairs, National Research Council of the National Academies, Nigerian Academy of Science
Drugs, Nonprescription -- Australia -- Popular works. : The Penguin consumer guide to medicines : the complete Australian reference to prescription and non-prescription drugs / Frances Mackenzie with H. Winter Griffith
