Cipro Tablets and Copaxone

• Generic Name: ciprofloxacin
• Dosage Forms: tablet, film coated
• Other Brand Names: Cipro, Cipro XR, Proquin XR, Cipro IV

Cipro (ciprofloxacin) is a fluoroquinolone (flor-o-KWIN-o-lone) antibiotic that fights bacteria in the body. Ciprofloxacin is used to treat different types of bacterial infections.

Cipro is also used to treat people who have been exposed to anthrax or certain types of plague.

Fluoroquinolone antibiotics can cause serious or disabling side effects that may not be reversible.

Cipro should be used only for infections that cannot be treated with a safer antibiotic.

• Generic Name: glatiramer
• Dosage Forms: injection, solution
• Other Brand Names: Copaxone, Glatopa

Copaxone (glatiramer) is a combination of four amino acids (proteins) that affect the immune system.

Copaxone injection is used to treat relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis in adults (including clinically isolated syndrome, relapsing-remitting disease, and active secondary progressive disease).

Copaxone will not cure MS, but it can make relapses occur less often.