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• The last time that happened was in 1994 when Levoxine, a thyroid drug, was being confused with Lanoxin, a heart medication.
• Two were brand-name drugs : Synthroid, and Levoxyl or Levoxine, which is now made by Jones Medical Industries of St . Louis.
• The usual medications prescribed are Synthroid, Levothroid, Levoxine or Levo-T . This is one case in which specialists recommend that generic substitutes not be used, since they have been found to contain variable amounts of hormone.
• The researchers at the University of California at San Francisco found that for most patients the less costly generic forms of the drug worked just as well as Synthroid and another brand-name version, Levoxyl or Levoxine, which is similar in price to the generic drugs.
• But he mentioned a number of drugs that have been involved in mixups, including norfloxacin, an antibiotic that doctors often abbreviate as norflox, and Norflex, a muscle relaxant; Levoxine, a thyroid drug, and Lanoxin, a form of digitalis, a heart drug; and Lasix, a diuretic, and Losec, an ulcer drug.