Definitions
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- noun A particular
drug used to treatirritable bowel syndrome andconstipation .
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Examples
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Partial serotonin agonist (tegaserod): indications: constipation-predominant irritable bowel syndrome; limitations: cardiovascular adverse effects
PLoS Medicine: New Articles Salomone Di Saverio et al. 2009
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Dr. Mintzes sided with those who believe irritable bowel syndrome is a made-up disease, invented primarily to sell drugs, and she argued that the U.S. ads for tegaserod implied it was an appropriate alternative to laxatives.
MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2008
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Only tegaserod sales appeared to be affected by advertising, and not for very long.
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They also obtained U.S. prescription data for tegaserod from Medicaid records for extra comparison.
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But the difference began fading about a year later, even though U.S. ads for tegaserod continued.
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The study compared sales of three drugs -- etanercept (Enbrel), mometasone (Nasonex), and tegaserod (Zelnorm) -- in French-speaking and English-speaking regions of Canada before and after the populations were exposed to advertising emanating from the United States.
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Effect of illicit direct to consumer advertising on use of etanercept, mometasone, and tegaserod in Canada: controlled longitudinal study
BMJ Latest Articles 2008
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"Effect of illicit direct to consumer advertising on use of etanercept, mometasone, and tegaserod in Canada: controlled longitudinal study"
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In their longitudinal study, Michael Law and colleagues found that US television advertisements viewed in Canada caused a rise in prescriptions for tegaserod, a treatment for irritable bowel syndrome that was later withdrawn because of safety concerns
BMJ Latest Articles 2008
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On the other hand, they pointed out that "use of tegaserod was both higher and growing faster in Medicaid before direct-to-consumer advertising, suggesting that other factors were driving these differential trends."
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