• the Sri Lanka National Pharmaceuticals Policy was established in the 1970s to ensure that Sri Lankans could get high-quality, reasonably priced medications at correct dosages, and later became a model for national drug policies worldwide?

Facts on topics related to Medication

Medicine

• Harvard medical graduate Brenda Taylor reached the 2004 Olympic final in the 400-meter hurdles?
• poison, over its 6500-year history, has been used for both great progression in medicine and as a hugely popular method of assassination?
• Body surface area is an important measure used in medicine to calculate chemotherapy dosage?
• body surface area is an important measure used in medicine to calculate chemotherapy dosage?
• flutamide is a medicine used to treat prostate cancer?
• Kadambini Ganguly (pictured) was one of the first female graduates in the British Empire and the first female conventional doctor in South Asia?
• metolazone is a medicine used to treat congestive heart failure and hypertension?
• toso is a medicinal sake drunk during Japanese New Year celebrations?
• the Chinese tallow tree is used to make soap, candles, and medicine?
• the Tree of Hippocrates is a plane tree in Kos under which, according to legend, Hippocrates taught his pupils medicine?

Drug

• xenobiotic metabolism is the set of metabolic pathways that detoxify xenobiotics, such as drugs and poisons?
• from 1965 to 1999, Aubrey W. Young established a series of drug and alcohol treatment programs through the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals?