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Essential Medicines

Essential Medicines is a concept within global health policy and the right to health denoting a curated list of medications considered most effective, safe, and necessary for addressing priority healthcare needs of a population, distinguished from other medicines by their selection based on disease burden, efficacy, safety, and comparative cost-effectiveness.

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The Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals

Annals of Internal Medicine · 1990 · 4.5K citations

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Martindale: the complete drug reference

Choice Reviews Online · 2005 · 2.7K citations

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Breakthrough: Chloroquine phosphate has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of COVID-19 associated pneumonia in clinical studies

Jianjun Gao, Zhenxue Tian, Xu Yang · BioScience Trends · 2020 · 2.7K citations · Full text

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Complementary and alternative medicine use among adults: United States, 2002

Patricia M. Barnes, Eve Powell‐Griner, Kim McFann et al. · Seminars in Integrative Medicine · 2004 · 2.2K citations

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The new Swedish Prescribed Drug Register—Opportunities for pharmacoepidemiological research and experience from the first six months

Björn Wettermark, Niklas Hammar, C. MichaelFored et al. · Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety · 2006 · 1.9K citations · Full text

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Authors

31.7K

  1. BG
    Brian Godman

    University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

    71 publications · 3.4K citations

    34

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  2. NJ
    Nicholas J. White

    Mahidol University, Thailand

    43 publications · 3.5K citations

    32

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  3. CG
    Catherine Goodman

    London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

    34 publications · 2.3K citations

    26

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  4. RL
    Richard Laing

    Boston University, United States

    35 publications · 3.4K citations

    25

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  5. MA
    Mohamed Azmi Hassali

    Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

    35 publications · 1.5K citations

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Institutions

6.7K

  1. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

    London, United Kingdom

    65 h-index

    557 publications

    34.8K citations

  2. World Health Organization

    Geneva, Switzerland

    60 h-index

    326 publications

    33K citations

  3. Karolinska Institutet

    Stockholm, Sweden

    54 h-index

    318 publications

    30.1K citations

  4. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    53 h-index

    372 publications

    18.4K citations

  5. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    49 h-index

    232 publications

    15K citations

  6. Mahidol University

    Bangkok, Thailand

    46 h-index

    416 publications

    26.6K citations

  7. University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    45 h-index

    189 publications

    10K citations

  8. Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit

    Bangkok, Thailand

    45 h-index

    410 publications

    24.9K citations

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  1. PubMed

    Repository · 615 publications · 23K citations

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  2. Malaria Journal

    296 publications · 12.6K citations

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  3. Journal of Ethnopharmacology

    115 publications · 9.7K citations

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  4. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

    131 publications · 7.5K citations

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  5. The Lancet

    103 publications · 11.2K citations

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