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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. 
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See [[Pharmaceutical Drug Targets]] for a list of drug targets organized by disease. 
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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''.
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==[[Alzheimer's Disease]]==
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==[[Bacterial Infection]]==
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==[[Cancer]]==
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==Depression==
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==[[Diabetes]]==
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==Erectile Dysfunction==
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==[[Hypercholeseterolemia]]==
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==[[Hypertension]]==
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==[[HIV]]==
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==[[Inflammation & Rheumatoid Arthritis|Inflammation & Arthritis]]==
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==[[Influenza]]==
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==[[Opioids|Opioid drugs]]==
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==Viral diseases==
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==Asthma==
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==Various diseases==
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