Eldepryl Oral and Lomitapide Mesylate

• Generic Name: selegiline
• Dosage Forms: capsule
• Other Brand Names: Eldepryl, Zelapar, Emsam

Selegiline is used in combination with levodopa or levodopa and carbidopa combination to treat Parkinson's disease (sometimes called shaking palsy or paralysis agitans). This medicine works to increase and extend the effects of levodopa, and may help to slow the progress of Parkinson's disease.

This medicine is available only with your doctor's prescription.

• Generic Name: lomitapide
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Juxtapid

Adjunct to a low-fat diet and other lipid-lowering treatments, including LDL apheresis where available, to reduce LDL-cholesterol, total cholesterol, apolipoprotein B (apo B), and non-HDL-cholesterol concentrations in the management of homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (designated an orphan drug by US FDA for use in this condition).

Safety and efficacy not established in patients with hypercholesterolemia who do not have homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia.

Effects on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality not established.