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• List of World Health Organization Essential Medicines
  ...' is a model list of [[essential medicines]] created by the [[World Health Organization]]. | publisher= World Health Organization
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• United States Navy Hospital Corpsman
  ...as clinical or specialty technicians, medical administrative personnel and health care providers at medical treatment facilities. They also serve as battlefi During World War I, hospital corpsmen served throughout the fleet, earning particular di
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• Wood Gas
  ...d gas generator|wood gasifier]] is attached. This was quite popular during World War II in several European and Asian countries because the war prevented ea ...the secondary combustion cycle, therefore gasification stoves carry lower health risks than conventional cooking fires.
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• Halothane
  ...ential Drugs List]]", which is a list of minimum medical needs for a basic health care system.<ref name="essentialWHO">{{cite web | publisher = World Health Organization
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• Ivermectin
  ...an countries and Yemen, according to studies conducted by the World Health Organization.<ref name="UFAR">{{Cite web | author= United Front Against Riverblindness| ...te for childhood scabies in developing countries |journal=J Paediatr Child Health |volume=38 |issue=4 |pages=401–4 |year=2002 |month=August |pmid=12174005
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• Quinine
  ...uthor=Toovey S |title=The Miraculous Fever-Tree. The Cure that Changed the World Fiametta Rocco; Harper Collins, San Francisco, 2004, 348 pages, Paperback, ...rk, or 97% of the world's quinine production.<ref name=clifford/> During [[World War II]], Allied powers were cut off from their supply of quinine when the
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• Mefloquine
  [[Category:World Health Organization essential medicines]]
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• Glibenclamide
  ...of|2007}}, it is one of only two oral anti-diabetics in the [[World Health Organization Model List of Essential Medicines]] (the other being [[metformin]]).<ref>(M ...plication/pdf, 626969 bytes -->}}, 15^th edition, [[World Health Organization]], p. 21. Retrieved on 2007-11-19.</ref> As of 2003, in the United States,
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• Spectinomycin
  [[Category:World Health Organization essential medicines]]
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• Bupivacaine
  [[Category:World Health Organization essential medicines]]
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• Lidocaine
  ...educe the effects by around two thirds.<ref>http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7175306.stm</ref> Lidocaine is not currently listed by the [[World Anti-Doping Agency]] as an illegal substance.<ref>http://www.wada-ama.org/D
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• Allopurinol
  ...e]] by reducing the workload on the heart.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/10254759.stm Gout drug 'can prevent angina pain of heart disease'], BBC New [[Category:World Health Organization essential medicines]]
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• Chloroquine
  ...red for a decade because it was considered too toxic for human use. During World War II United States government-sponsored clinical trials for anti-malarial ...02. Atlanta, Georgia: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, 2001.</ref>
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• Chlorphenamine
  ...ects from a given quantity of the drug by itself. In various places in the world, cough & cold preparations containing codeine and chlorpheniramine are avai [[Category:World Health Organization essential medicines]]
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• Dexamethasone
  | url = http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1996453,00.html?xid=rss-mostpopular ...gladesh. The Guardian, 5 April 2010]</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/10173115.stm Bangladesh's dark brothel steroid secret. BBC News,
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• Prednisolone
  As a glucocorticosteroid, prednisolone is banned under [[World Anti-Doping Agency|WADA]] anti-doping rules.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The 2008 [[Category:World Health Organization essential medicines]]
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• Acetylcysteine
  ...t of acetaminophen poisoning | year = 2006 | journal = American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy | volume = 63 | pages = 1821 | issue = 19}}</ref> Repeated ...htm N-acetylcysteine attenuates alcohol-induced oxidative stess in rats] ''World Journal of Gastroenterology'' 2003 Apr 15</ref>
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• Calcium gluconate
  [[Category:World Health Organization essential medicines]]
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• Deferoxamine
  ...As an alternative to injections, in 2009 Iranian researchers developed the world's first pill version of deferoxamine; when used, the pills reportedly reduc [[Category:World Health Organization essential medicines]]
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• Dimercaprol
  | NFPA Rating = Health - 2;Flammability - 1;Reactivity - 0 ...ompound developed by British biochemists at [[Oxford University]] during [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/bal/developm
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• Naloxone
  ...es' clinical procedures in emergency medicine|date=2014|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences|location=London|isbn=9781455748594|page=476|edition=6|url=https:// ...om/monograph/naloxone-hydrochloride.html|publisher=The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists|accessdate=Jan 2, 2015}}</ref> It appears to be safe in
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