Just wanted to say...

[sroni]

I'm still alive. Getting used to Ireland. Ireland is awesome. Fiance's little sister passed what we're calling The Plague onto both of us, so we've been coughing like crazy. Also, it turns out that Acetaminophen is called Paracetamol over here, so I took some not realizing that I'm ALLERGIC TO IT. Spent the next three hours puking.

Anybody know why it's called something else everywhere in the world NOT the States and Canada? Because I can't find that one out.

Anyway. I'm alive. It's one thirty in the morning, so I'm going to sleep.

Comments

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I would assume it's a legal thing involving brand names. More importantly, hope you feel better soon!

[nothorse.livejournal.com]

Because the US has a significant attitude problem when it comes to international standards? Basically there's a committee that gives names to medical substances that are trademark free and can be used in scientific literature.

Internationally there's the International Nonproprietary Name (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nonproprietary_Name), given out by the WHO. The US just hast to do it different and they have the United States Adopted Name (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Adopted_Name).

Probably a historic artefact, meaning sometime earlier every country had their own generic names, and adopted the INN, except for the USA (and Canada by virtue/vice of being in the same market).