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[[Image: Nexium.jpg|160px|right|thumb|AstraZeneca’s Nexium]] The Pharmaceutical industry is one of the world’s largest industries, grossing well over $300 billion in the United States alone. Understanding how the drugs the pharma industry develops work and different characteristics of these compounds is important to nearly everyone as 50% of the US population takes at least one prescription medication regularly and nearly everyone takes a pharmaceutical pill at some point in their life.<ref>http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/09/03/129626052/a-portrait-of-health-prescription-drugs-in-america</ref> See also [[WHO Model Lists of Essential Medicines]]. The following is a growing list of pharmaceutical compounds organized by disorder. <br /> <br/> See [[Pharmaceutical Drug Targets]] for a list of drug targets organized by disease. <br /> <br/> The majority of all modern medicinal drugs target members of the superfamily of proteins called the [[G protein-coupled receptor|G protein-coupled receptors]] or GPCRs<ref name="howmany">PMID: 17139284</ref><ref name="pharmtrends">PMID: 21075459</ref>. ==Treatments== The following is a list of pharmaceutical treatments for various diseases, organized by disorder. Each entry highlights general information about the therapeutic, [[Pharmacokinetics|pharmacokinetic data]] comparisons within its drug class, and a structural analysis explaining how the drug compound functions ''in vivo''. <table style="background: cellspacing="3px" align="center" cellpadding="5px" width="90%"> <tr> <td style="width:33%;border-width:1px; border-style:inset; text-align:center; background:#F1F2FC"> ==[[Alzheimer's Disease]]== </td> <td style="width:33%;border-width:1px; border-style:inset; text-align:center; background:#F1F2FC"> ==[[Bacterial Infection]]== </td> <td style="width:33%;border-width:1px; border-style:inset; text-align:center; background:#F1F2FC"> ==[[Cancer]]== </td> <tr> <td style="width:33%; vertical-align:top;border-width:1px; border-style:inset"> <div style="overflow:auto; height:200px"> {{:Treatments:Alzheimer's Disease}} </div> </td> <td style="width:33%; vertical-align:top;border-width:1px; border-style:inset"> <div style="overflow:auto; height:200px"> {{:Treatments:Bacterial Infections}} </div> </td> <td style="width:33%; vertical-align:top;border-width:1px; border-style:inset"> <div style="overflow:auto; height:200px"> {{:Treatments:Cancer}} </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:33%;border-width:1px; border-style:inset; text-align:center; background:#F1F2FC"> ==Depression== </td> <td style="width:33%;border-width:1px; border-style:inset; text-align:center;background:#F1F2FC"> ==[[Diabetes]]== </td> <td style="width:33%;border-width:1px; border-style:inset; text-align:center;background:#F1F2FC"> ==Erectile Dysfunction== </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:33%; vertical-align:top;border-width:1px; border-style:inset"> <div style="overflow:auto; height:200px"> {{:Treatments:Depression}} </div> </td> <td style="width:33%; vertical-align:top;border-width:1px; border-style:inset"> <div style="overflow:auto; height:200px"> {{:Treatments:Diabetes}} </div> </td> <td style="width:33%; vertical-align:top;border-width:1px; border-style:inset"> <div style="overflow:auto; height:200px"> {{:Treatments:Erectile Dysfunction}} </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:33%;border-width:1px; border-style:inset; text-align:center;text-align:center; background:#F1F2FC"> ==[[Hypercholeseterolemia]]== </td> <td style="width:33%;border-width:1px; border-style:inset; text-align:center;background:#F1F2FC"> ==[[Hypertension]]== </td> <td style="width:33%;border-width:1px; border-style:inset; text-align:center;background:#F1F2FC"> ==[[HIV]]== </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:33%; vertical-align:top;border-width:1px; border-style:inset"> <div style="overflow:auto; height:200px"> {{:Treatments:Hypercholeseterolemia}} </div> </td> <td style="width:33%; vertical-align:top;border-width:1px; border-style:inset"> <div style="overflow:auto; height:200px"> {{:Treatments:Hypertension}} </div> </td> <td style="width:33%; vertical-align:top;border-width:1px; border-style:inset"> <div style="overflow:auto; height:200px"> {{:Treatments:HIV}} </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:33%;border-width:1px; border-style:inset; text-align:center;text-align:center; background:#F1F2FC"> ==[[Inflammation & Rheumatoid Arthritis|Inflammation & Arthritis]]== </td> <td style="width:33%;border-width:1px; border-style:inset; text-align:center;background:#F1F2FC"> ==[[Influenza]]== </td> <td style="width:33%;border-width:1px; border-style:inset; text-align:center;background:#F1F2FC"> ==[[Opioids|Opioid drugs]]== </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:33%; vertical-align:top;border-width:1px; border-style:inset"> <div style="overflow:auto; height:200px"> {{:Treatments:Inflammation}} </div> </td> <td style="width:33%; vertical-align:top;border-width:1px; border-style:inset"> <div style="overflow:auto; height:200px"> {{:Treatments:Influenza}} </div> </td> <td style="width:33%; vertical-align:top;border-width:1px; border-style:inset"> <div style="overflow:auto; height:200px"> {{:Treatments:Opioid drugs}} </div> </td> </tr> <td style="width:33%;border-width:1px; border-style:inset; text-align:center; background:#F1F2FC"> ==Viral diseases== </td> <td style="width:33%;border-width:1px; border-style:inset; text-align:center; background:#F1F2FC"> ==Asthma== </td> <td style="width:33%;border-width:1px; border-style:inset; text-align:center; background:#F1F2FC"> ==Various diseases== </td> <tr> <td style="width:33%; vertical-align:top;border-width:1px; border-style:inset"> <div style="overflow:auto; height:200px"> {{:Treatments:Viral diseases}} </div> </td> <td style="width:33%; vertical-align:top;border-width:1px; border-style:inset"> <div style="overflow:auto; height:200px"> {{:Treatments:Asthma}} </div> </td> <td style="width:33%; vertical-align:top;border-width:1px; border-style:inset"> <div style="overflow:auto; height:200px"> {{:Treatments:Other diseases}} </div> </td> </tr> </table> <br/> ===References=== <references/> __NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__

• Treatments:Alzheimer's Disease
• Treatments:Asthma
• Treatments:Bacterial Infections
• Treatments:Cancer
• Treatments:Depression
• Treatments:Diabetes
• Treatments:Erectile Dysfunction
• Treatments:HIV
• Treatments:Hypercholeseterolemia
• Treatments:Hypertension
• Treatments:Inflammation
• Treatments:Influenza
• Treatments:Opioid drugs
• Treatments:Other diseases
• Treatments:Viral diseases

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