E-DRUG: unidentified japenese drug

E-drug: unidentified japenese drug
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Dear E-Druggers,

Can anyone help identifying a Japanese drug?
The letters on the blister are: CGR-2.
The patient is also on Nizatidine and Ecabet, a cytoprotective agent
used in the treatment of peptic ulcer.

Thanks for your help!....janet

Janet McNeece
Senior Pharmacist, Drug Information centre,
Royal Adelaide Hospital
South Australia, SA5063
Email: jmcneece@gp.rah.sa.gov.au

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3. Andrew Herxheimer, E-drug subscriber, offered us the following poem.
Although poetry is not our objective, we would like you to see it.
Any comments please directly to Andrew.

Hearing about a difficult recent meeting on Defined Daily Doses
at WHO in Geneva suggested this verse. A brief factual account of
the meeting might interest e-druggers and pharmacoepicologists..
               
    - DDD day in Geneva -
               
        The divagations
        of pharmaceutical conversations
        in technical consultations
        between representative nations
        lead to frustrations, expostulations
               
        And few benefits for patients.

[note: divagation is a rare old word that means digression, wandering]

        Andrew Herxheimer