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Long-standing hepatitis C infection, genotype 1 or 3

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Preventing and treating blood clots, including the long-term treatment of clots in people with cancer

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The cough suppressant in most supermarket cough syrups. At many times that dose it is a dissociative, and the same molecule is now half of a prescription antidepressant

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HIV-1 infection, as part of a combination regimen

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A subcutaneous injection, given as rarely as monthly, that stops the joint and muscle bleeds of haemophilia A without replacing the missing clotting factor

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Hereditary ATTR Amyloidosis with Nerve Damage

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Depression that has not responded to at least two other antidepressants

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High cholesterol, and reducing the chance of needing a stent or a bypass in people who already have coronary disease

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Type 2 diabetes — the sulfonylurea with the largest outcome trial behind it

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Type 2 diabetes — a tablet that squeezes more insulin out of the pancreas

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Psychosis, and the tics of Tourette disorder

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Itching from allergy or hives, anxiety, and sedation before an anaesthetic

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Severe arthritis, gout attacks and inflamed shoulders

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HIV-1 infection and chronic hepatitis B

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High pressure inside the eye, and the nerve damage it causes

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High blood pressure, thickened heart muscle, and kidney damage from type 2 diabetes

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Sickle cell disease with a history of severe pain crises

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Infections caused by parasites and by bacteria that grow without oxygen, including bacterial vaginosis and trichomoniasis

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A steroid that comes as an asthma inhaler, a hay-fever nasal spray, a skin cream and a sinus implant

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Pain, fever and inflammation, especially where it needs to last

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Used in operating theatres, dentistry and childbirth as a fast-on, fast-off anaesthetic and painkiller. The identical gas is sold in cream-charger cartridges with no restriction, and inhaling it repeatedly destroys vitamin B12

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Depression — and, off-label, nerve pain, migraine prevention and helping people stop smoking

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Itchy, red, watering eyes from allergy

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Flu, if started within two days of the first symptom

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Reflux that has damaged the lining of the gullet, and rare conditions that make the stomach produce far too much acid

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A short-term prescription appetite suppressant

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High cholesterol, and the prevention of heart attacks, strokes and cardiovascular death

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Type 2 diabetes — a fast, short-acting tablet taken with meals

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High cholesterol, and the risk of a heart attack or stroke

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Breast cancer that grows on oestrogen — treating it, and reducing the chance of getting it

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Severe pain needing an opioid, including the nerve pain of diabetes, when other options are inadequate

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Moderate to severe pain, as an opioid

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Heavy bleeding — from injury, after childbirth, during surgery, during periods, or after a dental extraction in haemophilia

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Acne, and fine facial lines from sun damage

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Long-term asthma control, for the small number of people who cannot use the alternatives

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A sudden tight chest and wheeze — the blue rescue inhaler

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Thinning, fragile bones that break more easily than they should

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A weak or hesitant stream, going often, and getting up at night, caused by an enlarged prostate

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Bleeding that will not stop because the body is dissolving its own clots too fast

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High blood pressure that one tablet has not brought down

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High pressure inside the eye — and, sold under a different name, thin eyelashes

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Numbing an area of the body for hours rather than for an hour, for surgery, childbirth or a nerve block

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Preventing clots during a stent procedure in someone who has not already taken a platelet tablet

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Focal and generalised epilepsy, trigeminal nerve pain, and mania in bipolar I disorder

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Drop attacks and other seizures in Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, added to other seizure medicines

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Serious skin infections and bloodstream infections caused by resistant Gram-positive bacteria — not lung infections, which it cannot treat

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Early Alzheimer disease, with treatment stopped once the plaque is cleared

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Tick-borne and sexually transmitted infections, chest infections, acne, and malaria prevention

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Seizures in two severe childhood epilepsies — the same molecule that was once a diet pill

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Switching off the blood thinner dabigatran in an emergency — a serious bleed, or an operation that cannot wait

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A short-acting inhaler or nebuliser that blocks the nerve signal tightening the airway, and a nasal spray for a running nose

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Diarrhoea — slowing the bowel down so stools become less frequent and more solid

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Opioid dependence, as maintenance or detoxification treatment; and severe long-term pain

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Type 2 diabetes — the fastest and weakest of the meal-time tablets

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Spinal muscular atrophy in babies under two

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A weekly injection that tells the bone marrow to make more platelets — and, separately, the drug stockpiled to keep people alive after a radiation accident

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Type 2 diabetes

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Ulcerative colitis and rheumatoid arthritis

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HIV-1 infection, HIV prevention, and chronic hepatitis B

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Fungal nail infection, athlete’s foot and ringworm