drug names

Posted by Simon (193.113.185.163) on March 29, 2000 at 18:03:01:

Dear All,

As I promised Bennie Sue the other day, I’ve been doing a little research on names of drugs in different
areas. This is, I think, particularly important as the readership increases, and as OUCH, hopefully, develops
internationally. (It might even be my little bit for OUCH).

I managed to track quite a few down, but would be grateful for any help where there is a question mark, or
correct me on any obvious cock-ups. (I shall be exceedingly pissed off if someone now gives me the address
of a site which does all this for you!). I don’t makes any claims as to effectiveness, merely that these things
have been mentioned at some point or another.

Here goes: (there is a table below - but I can't work out why you have to scroll down...)

Generic Name	US	UK	elsewhere
TRIPTANS
Sumatriptan	Imitrex	Imigran	?
Rizatriptan	Maxalt	Maxalt?	?
Naratriptan	Amerge/Naramig	?	?
Zolmitriptan	Zomig	Zomig?	?
OTHER ABORTIVES
Ergotamine tartrate	Cafergot	?	?
Dihydroergotamine (DHE)	?	?	?
LOCAL ANAESTHETICS
Lidocaine=Lignocaine	Xylocaine	?	?
PREVENTATIVES
Lithium carbonate	Eskalith/Lithonate	?	?
Verapamil	Calan	Cordilox	?
Methysergide	Sansert	?	?
Sodium valproate	Epilim/Valpro	Epilim	Epilim (Au)
Diclofenac sodium	?	Voltarol	?
Topiramate	Topomax	?	?
Gabapentin	Neurontin	?	?
Fluconazole	Diflucan	Diflucan	?
Pizotifen	?	Sanomigran	?
ANTI-DEPRESSANTS/BETA BLOCKERS
Amitriptyline	?	Elavil	?
Propanalol	?	Inderal	?
OTHERS
Ibuprofen	Advil	Nurofen/Brufen	?
Acetominophen/Paracetamol	Tylenol/Excedrin	?	?
Caffeine	Excedrin	?	?
Aspirin	(Excedrin)	?	?

I’m away for a couple of days, but it would be nice to have a full e-mail box when I get back (though my
wife might disagree!). (Another plug, if you added your month/date of birth to the e-mail for my other
survey if you haven’t done so I’d be grateful - but please put the month in words as we write 2nd March
2000 as 2/3/00 and you can imagine the transatlantic confusion!)

In preference e-mail not the message board!

Thanks,

Simon

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• Could be the difference of generic versus brandname NickD 20:54:13 03/29/00 (0)

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