Rather than just covering up the symptoms, Relenza is a medicine used to treat influenza at its source. Relenza attacks the flu virus and prevents it from spreading inside your body. Who can take Relenza? If flu symptoms have appeared within the last day or two, you...
NORVASC helps control high blood pressure and can be used to treat angina. By relaxing your blood vessels, Norvasc allows blood to flow more easily through them. The final outcome is lower blood pressure and decreased angina. What is high blood pressure? High blood pressure comes from...
How does Prevacid help acid reflux disease? Prevacid, commonly known as a proton pump inhibitor, helps prevent stomach acid production (usually during digestion) by turning off many of the acid-producing pumps found in your body. Which in turn, greatly reduces the searing pain that occurs when...
CLARITIN contains an antihistamine - a type of medicine that blocks the action of histamine, a natural substance in your body that is released by your immune system during an allergic reaction. What is an allergy? An allergy is a response by your body's immune system to...
How does Tamiflu work? TAMIFLU attacks the influenza virus and stops it from spreading inside your body. Rather than simply masking the symptoms, Tamiflu treats flu at its source. Treatment of the flu virus and prescription of any antiviral medications like Tamiflu needs to happen within...
NEURONTIN, also called gabapentin, can be used to relieve nerve pain that follows shingles in adults. Commonly known as PHN (postherpetic neuralgia), the pain can last one to three months (in some cases, years) after shingles has healed. Studies of PHN show Neurontin greatly reduces patients'...
Breast cancer medication Tamoxifen has been used for more than 20 years to treat patients with advanced breast cancer. Tamoxifen is used as additional therapy after primary treatment for early-stage breast cancer. Tamoxifen greatly reduces the possibility of developing breast cancer in women who have...
Carvedilol (brand name-COREG) - help treat heart failure. Used in combination with other medications, Carvedilol can help treat heart failure. It can also be used alone or in combination with other medications to treat high blood pressure. What is heart failure? Heart failure is a disorder in which...
Celebrex for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis is a prescription medication used to help relieve the pain and swelling. Celebrex is also used to treat pain in adults (strains and sprains) or pain after surgery, primary dysmenorrhea (painful menstrual cramps) and symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis. Ankylosing...
