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Rebuilding infection-fighting white cells knocked down by chemotherapy

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An enlarged prostate causing a weak stream and frequent urination, where the aim is to shrink the gland rather than relax it

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Kidney disease caused by type 2 diabetes, and heart failure with a normal or near-normal pumping fraction

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Active rheumatoid arthritis

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An underactive thyroid gland

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Serious infections caused by resistant Gram-positive bacteria, including MRSA and vancomycin-resistant enterococci

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Primary hyperoxaluria type 1 — a genetic cause of kidney stones and kidney failure

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Ulcerative colitis — inflammation and ulceration of the lining of the large bowel

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High blood pressure, chest pain, heart failure, and the period after a heart attack

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Making a person calm and drowsy for a procedure, and making sure they do not remember it

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Being sick, or feeling sick, after chemotherapy, radiotherapy or an operation

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Depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic, social anxiety, generalised anxiety and post-traumatic stress; separately, at a much lower dose, menopausal hot flushes

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Generalised and focal epilepsy, seizures around brain surgery, and prolonged seizures in hospital

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Preventing stroke in an irregular heartbeat, treating and preventing clots, and reducing events in stable artery disease

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Type 2 diabetes — a tablet that makes the gut hormone signal last longer

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An enlarged prostate causing a weak stream and frequent urination — and, in the same tablet, erectile dysfunction

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Preventing heart attacks, strokes and stent clots after a heart attack or unstable angina

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Chest pain, a racing or irregular heartbeat, and high blood pressure

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Acne

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Opioid use disorder, and severe long-term pain

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Plaque psoriasis — the raised, red, scaly patches

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Schizophrenia, both phases of bipolar I disorder, and depression that has not responded to an antidepressant alone

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Serious bacterial infections given by injection — pneumonia, meningitis, bloodstream, bone, urinary and sexually transmitted infection

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Severe inflammation and swelling — including brain swelling, croup, some cancers, and COVID-19 severe enough to need oxygen

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Arthritis pain and inflammation

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Chest pain from narrowed or spasming arteries, high blood pressure, and a heart racing out of rhythm

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COVID-19 prevention in older adults and people at higher risk

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Preventing and treating blood clots in the legs and lungs, and in heart attacks

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A severe allergic reaction — the adrenaline pen

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A hospital anaesthetic and a patch for severe chronic pain. Separately, illicitly manufactured fentanyl is the drug involved in most American overdose deaths, and it is increasingly pressed into counterfeit pills

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Haemophilia A or B, including when factor replacement no longer works

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Type 2 diabetes — the strongest and longest-acting of the old sulfonylurea tablets

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High blood pressure, including when it must be brought down urgently; and, combined with a nitrate, heart failure

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Lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and malaria where the parasite is still susceptible

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Severe arthritis, gout attacks and inflamed shoulders

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Preventing angina — chest pain from narrowed heart arteries

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Dandruff and seborrhoeic dermatitis, and the pale or dark patches of tinea versicolor

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Epilepsy, including focal seizures and generalised seizures

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Numbing part of the body for a procedure, and steadying a dangerously fast heart rhythm

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Alcohol use disorder, and relapse prevention in opioid use disorder

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Primary hyperoxaluria type 1 — a genetic cause of kidney stones and kidney failure

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Heartburn, acid reflux and stomach or duodenal ulcers

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Nerve damage caused by inherited transthyretin amyloidosis

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Bleeding, or a risk of bleeding, because the body cannot finish building four of its clotting proteins — from warfarin, from a newborn gut that has not started making vitamin K yet, or from a condition that stops fat being absorbed

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High cholesterol

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Thinning bones after menopause, and lowering the chance of developing one type of breast cancer

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HIV-1 infection, as part of a combination regimen

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Stopping the body rejecting a transplanted organ, and severe eczema that has not responded to steroid creams

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Testosterone replacement for men whose testicles or pituitary do not make enough

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Epilepsy, including focal and generalised seizures and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, and prevention of migraine attacks

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Depression — although most people who are given it are taking it to sleep, which is not a licensed use

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Preventing and treating clots in people who have had a dangerous immune reaction to heparin

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Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression that has not responded to an antidepressant alone, irritability in autism, and Tourette disorder

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Stopping the immune system rejecting a transplanted kidney, and severe rheumatoid arthritis that has not responded to other treatment

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A daily preventer inhaler for asthma, and a nasal spray for hay fever

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A cough, of any cause

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Low calcium and overactive parathyroid glands caused by kidney failure, and low calcium caused by absent parathyroid hormone

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Stopping the microscopic clots of acquired TTP by cutting the tether that platelets are being dragged onto

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Sneezing, runny nose and itchy eyes — the old allergy tablet

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Preventing clots after a heart attack, a stent, a stroke, or in blocked leg arteries