Thursday, September 21, 2006

A drug named after a graphics layout...

Since I work in healthcare, I have a lot of pens that have drug names on them. Today a drug rep came by for a new drug I haven't heard of. The brand name is Tygacil, generic tigecycline.. it's an IV antibiotic, and I'm sure it's lovely, but seriously, everything is tiger-print. I think they named it that just so that they could put tiger stripes on everything. Unfortunately, so did Valcyte and certain lines of Roche freezer products. I guess tigers are popular as infection "fighters"... who can say?

It's a nice pen, though.

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