World Health Organization Model List of Essential Medicines

Lindenberg, M., Kopp, S. and Dressman, J.B. (2004) Classification of orally administered drugs on the World Health Organization Model list of Essential Medicines according to the biopharmaceutics classification system. European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 58 (2), 265. 

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WHO. The selection and nse of essential medicines Report of the WHO Expert Committee (including the 15th WHO model list of essential medicines). Geneva World Health Organization 2007. (Technical report series no 946). 

This TTA is an injectable core medicine listed in the World Health Organization s (WHO) Model list of essential medicines [41], Atropine (Fig. 1) acts as a competitive MR antagonists used clinically as, e.g. parasympatholytic for pre-anaesthesia medication, ophthalmologic procedures and as antidote for the therapy of anticholinesterase poisoning [42,43], A corresponding PK study in man monitoring atropine as antidote by LC-MS/MS is referred in this chapter [44],... 

Artemether (N2) and arteether (N3) are the most well-studied analogs among many synthetic derivatives and are used in malaria-prone regions, particularly India (131). Artemether and sodium artesunate (a hemisuccinate derivative of dihydroartemisinin) (N4) have been added by the World Health Organization to its Model List of Essential Medicines (132). 

World Health Organization, Proposal to waive in vivo bioequivalence requirements for the WHO model list of essential medicines immediate release, solid oral dosage forms. Working document QAS/04.109/Rev.l. Available at www.who.org. Accessed November 13, 2007. 

The term essential medicines is usually applied to those medicines that are listed on the World Health Organization (WHO) Model List of Essential Medicines, most of which are off-patent many countries have developed their own lists. 

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