Detrol (tolterodine) for urinary frequency, urgency, or urge incontinence

May 1998

Pharmacia & Upjohn will soon market Detrol (tolterodine) forurinary frequency, urgency, or urge incontinence.

It's coming out now in the U.S...probably this fall in Canada.

It's an antimuscarinic like Ditropan (oxybutynin)...to inhibitbladder contractions and delay the desire to void.

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tamoxifen to PREVENT breast cancer
Gastroenterology Losec (omeprazole) to prevent and treat ulcers caused by NSAIDs
health officials are now RECOMMENDING vitamin and mineral supplements for more people
Cholesterol Baycol (cerivastatin) from Bayer
Cholesterol Pravachol (pravastatin) and Zocor (simvastatin) will soon be approved to prevent STROKE
Lice unusual head lice treatments
Renal & Urology DDAVP (desmopressin) TABLETS for bed-wetting
Renal & Urology Detrol (tolterodine) for urinary frequency, urgency, or urge incontinence
Ophthalmology two new eye drops for glaucoma
Parkinson Disease changes in the treatment of Parkinson's
Diabetes repaglinide, a new oral hypoglycemic for type 2 diabetes
Cardiology whether patients with heart failure should get warfarin
Cardiology higher doses of ACE inhibitors
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adverse drug reactions