Give a drug a good name

Lancet

Volumn 369, Issue 9570, 2007, Pages 1326-1328

  Mehta, Dinesh K ^a   Aronson, Jeffrey K ^b  

^a ROYAL PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; AMANTADINE; AMFEBUTAMONE; AMPHETAMINE; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CHLORAMBUCIL; DEFEROXAMINE; LIOTHYRONINE; MERCAPTAMINE; MERCAPTOPURINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NORADRENALIN; SIALIDASE INHIBITOR; THYRONINE; VINCA ALKALOID;

ARTICLE; DRUG NOMENCLATURE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 34247130464     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60612-6     Document Type: Note

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