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Occlusal paint is a liquid containing the active ingredient salicylic acid. This is a type of medicine known as a keratolytic.

Moderate-to-severe vasomotor symptoms of menopause. Vulvar and vaginal atrophy due to menopause.

  • Olanzapine is an antipsychotic medication that affects chemicals in the brain.
  • Olanzapine is used to treat the symptoms of psychotic conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (manic depression) in adults and children who are at least 13 years old.

Olmesartan is used to treat hypertension (high blood pressure).

Olumiant Tablets (Baricitinib) is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. It helps decrease pain, tenderness, and swelling in the joints.

Omacor belongs to a group of so called reducers of cholesterol and triglycerides. Omacor is used: • together with other medicines for treatment after a heart attack. • to treat certain forms of increased triglycerides (fats) in the blood after changes to the diet have not worked.

Recent work reports that the omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) found in fish oil increases the production of LR11, a protein that is found at reduced levels in Alzheimer's patients and which is known to destroy the protein that forms the "plaques" associated with the disease.

Omeprazole is a generic brand of Losec and is used to treat a variety of stomach problems involving irritation due to stomach acid.

Omesar plus tablets contain two active ingredients, olmesartan and hydrochlorothiazide. Olmesartan is a type of medicine called an angiotensin II receptor antagonist. Hydrochlorothiazide is a type of medicine called a thiazide diuretic. These are both medicines used to lower high blood pressure.

Omesar (Olmesartan) is used to treat hypertension (high blood pressure).

Omnexel Tablets - (Tamsulosin) is an alpha-blocker that relaxes the muscles in the prostate and bladder neck, making it easier to urinate.

Onbrez breezhaler contains the active ingredient indacaterol, which a type of medicine called a long-acting beta 2 agonist.

 

One-Alpha capsules, drops and injection all contain the active ingredient alfacalcidol, which is a form of vitamin D.

Opatanol is used to treat the eye symptoms of seasonal allergic conjunctivitis (inflammation of the eyes caused by pollen in patients with hayfever). These include itching, redness and swelling.

Oprymea (pramipexole) tablets and Oprymea (pramipexole) prolonged-release tablets both contain the active ingredient pramipexole, which is a type of medicine called a dopamine agonist.

Optimax (L-Tryptophan) is used in the treatment of depression when other treatments have not worked, and as an add-on treatment to other anti-depressant medication.

ORALAIR is a sublingual (under the tongue) grass allergy immunotherapy tablet used to treat symptoms of allergies to the grass pollens in ORALAIR. It is an allergy immunotherapy, which means that it works differently than other medicines you may take when you experience bothersome allergy symptoms.

Orencia infusion and injection contain the active ingredient abatacept, which is a type of medicine called a selective immunosuppressant. It is used to treat severe forms of rheumatoid arthritis.

Osteofos D3 is a calcium and vitamin D3 supplement for the treatment of certain bone conditions in the elderly. Both calcium and vitamin D are found in the diet and vitamin D is also produced in the skin following exposure to the sun.

 

Treatment of hyperphosphatemia associated with chronic renal insufficiency in patients undergoing dialysis (haemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis).