Sedative
Sedative is a general term used to describe a number of drugs that decrease activity, moderate excitement, and have a calming effect. The primary use for these drugs is to reduce ANXIETY, but...
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Sedative-Hypnotic
Sedative-hypnotic drugs are used to reduce motor activity and promote relaxation, drowsiness, and sleep. The term is hyphenated because, by adjusting the does, the same group of drug...
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Sleeping Pills
This is a general term applied to a number of different drugs in pill form that help induce sleep, i.e. sedative-hypnotic agents. There is a wide range of such medication and many requi...
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Sleeping Pills
The term "sleeping pills" applies to a number of different drugs in pill form that help a person fall asleep and stay asleep. These drugs are also known as sedative-hypno...
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Tranquilizers
As their name suggests, tranquilizers are used to calm people in agitated states. Unlike barbiturates, which are minor tranquilizers used in the treatment of anxiety and neurotic disorde...
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Canon Inc. and Toshiba Corp. said Friday they will postpone the
launch of next-generation flat-panel televisions known as SED TVs.
The two Japanese companies had planned...
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(EDS: ADDING INFO)
Canon Inc. and Toshiba Corp. said Friday they will postpone the
launch of next-generation televisions, known as SED TVs, due to a
patent dispute in the United States, deal...
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Japanese electronics maker Canon will take full control of a joint venture for flat panel TVs using a new technology called SED, the company said Friday, in a move aimed at an early settlement of a...
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The parents of Madeleine McCann have denounced as "outrageous" suggestions that they gave her sedatives — one of the theories that has emerged to explain the disappearance of the British girl...
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A Kentucky death-row prisoner claims that giving a condemned inmate a sedative on the day of execution interferes with the drug cocktail used in lethal injections.The lawsuit by Gregory L. Wilson, ...
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There are strong signs that a convicted killer felt pain during his botched execution, but there is no way to tell for sure because blood samples were taken too late, an expert told a commission re...
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Nearly three years after suitcases full of body parts washed up along Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, a nurse who helped infertile women conceive is to go on trial this week on charges that she killed ...
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There are strong signs that a convicted killer felt pain during his botched execution, but there is no way to tell for sure because blood samples were taken too late, an expert told a commission re...
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Canon, Toshiba put off launch of next-generation SED TVs
TOKYO - Canon Inc. and Toshiba Corp. said Friday they will
postpone the launch of next-generation flat-panel televisions ...
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A transplant doctor charged with hastening the death of a patient so he could harvest his organs asked a respiratory therapist to remove the man's breathing tube, the worker told authorities.In rec...
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