The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics
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ISSUE 792
May 19, 1989
Issue 792
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Astemizole - Another Non-Sedating Anthistamine
May 5, 1989 (Issue: 792)
Astemizole (Hismanal - Janssen), a new antihistamine, was recently marketed in the USA for treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis and chronic idiopathic urticaria. Like terfenadine (Seldane - Medical Letter, 27:65, 1985), astemizole is claimed to...more
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