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Question: Saw palmetto extracts are widely used as self-treatment for a variety of symptoms due to benign prostatic hyperplasia in men. What are the adverse effects associated with the use of saw palmetto?

Question: The reference cited below notes “Over the past decade, artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) have been deployed as first- and second- line treatments for uncomplicated malaria across malaria-endemic regions. Since 2001, this deployment has included the delivery of over 500 million treatments of artemether-lumefantrine (AL), making it one of the most widely prescribed drugs worldwide”. What neurologic toxicity is of most concern in patients receiving ACTs?

Question: The co-ingestion of drugs in which class may potentiate the adverse effects of the drug loperamide?

Question: What is the chemical denoted by the formula N₃Na?

Question: What is lycoperdonosis?

Question: What are the mechanisms of action of triptan drugs used in the treatment of migraine headaches?

Question: What percentage of drug-induced cases of torsade de pointes are associated with previously unrecognized long QT syndrome?

Question: What is methyl ethyl ketone? By what other name is this chemical known?

Question: Which anti-arrythmic drug has been associated with a so-called “pancerebellar syndrome” associated with “nystagmus, dysmetria, titubation, and ataxia of gait and stance”?