"Anti-inflammatories are overwhelmingly the drug of first choice," he said.

Initial therapy can be implemented with only one antibiotic, but there is no agreement regarding drug of first choice.

Ivermectin is the drug of first choice for treatment because of higher tolerance in patients.

She says that although she tried other drugs in the 1960s, alcohol was always her drug of first choice, just as it had been for her father.

Many studies have shown that ACEI should be the drugs of first choice in diabetics with high blood pressure.

"Amoxicillin remains the drug of first choice for the treatment of acute otitis media," Dr. Hong said.

AZT is still generally the drug of first choice, but the relative advantages of these drugs or the increasingly used combinations of them are poorly known.

Disopyramide has no effect on adrenergic receptors but has marked antimuscarinic effects on the heart and hence is not considered as a drug of first choice.

A prominent, mainstream physician lamented that he could prescribe morphine or any mind-numbing narcotic, but could merely recommend his drug of first choice to bring her relief.

He was the first clinician in Europe to report the clinical effects of this new medicine which, 30 years on, is still the drug of first choice in the treatment of patients with prostate cancer.

The "drugs of first choice" are considered the bile acid sequestrants, such as cholestyramine and colestipol, and nicotinic acid, whose long-term safety and effect in reducing the risk of heart disease have been established.

Should these general measures fail after a minimum three-month period the drug of first choice is probably a cardioselective β-blocking agent such as atenolol or metoprolol or alternatively a calcium antagonist such as nifedepine.

If diet does not do the job, the panel said, the "drugs of first choice" are cholestyramine, colestipol and nicotinic acid or niacin, a type of vitamin B. Cholestyramine is marketed by Bristol-Myers as Questran.

To combat moderate to severe morning sickness and hyperemesis gravidarum: In the UK, promethazine is drug of first choice, being preferred as an older drug with which there is a greater experience of use in pregnancy (second in line being metoclopramide or prochlorperazine).