[e-drug] Drugs for Live threatening illness and other categories

["Lenny H. Pattikawa" <pattikawa@few.eur.nl>]

 E-DRUG: Drugs for Live threatening illness and other categories
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Dear all,

I hope somebody can help me out for the following questions:

What kind of therapeutical category falls in the definitions of life
threatening illnesses and what kind of disease falls in this category?
Can somebody help me how to find the drugs, including their active
ingredients, used for "life threatening illnesses".

Can somebody help me to find the drugs, including their active ingredients
for other therapeutical categories, such as cholesterol reducing drugs, anti
depressant, etc. etc.

Thanks beforehands!
This information will be used for my dissertation which investigate the
innovativeness of pharmaceutical industry.

Kind regards,

Lenny Pattikawa
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Lenny H Pattikawa
Ph.D. Candidate
Erasmus Research Institute of Management
"Lenny H. Pattikawa" <pattikawa@few.eur.nl>

Erasmus University Rotterdam
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PO Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Phone +31 10 408 1321
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[All recognised formularies and references are set out in order of therapeutic categories. For example the WHO Model Formulary 2004, 
http://www.who.int/bookordersanglais/detart1.jsp?sesslan=1&codlan=1&codcol=15&codcch=2499# 
(repair URL)
the British National Formulary  http://www.bnf.org/bnf/bnf/current/
and Martindale Complete Drug Reference - formally called Martindale Extra Pharmacopoeia (a very big book). 
You will probably find such formularies and other useful references in your library. 
As for life threatening diseases, many diseases can be life-threatening if not treated.  Perhaps other e-druggers can help here.  BS Moderator]