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This inhaled combination contains a corticosteroid that reduces airway inflammation and a long-acting bronchodilator that relaxes airway muscles. It is used for regular asthma control when both actions are appropriate; it does not relieve sudden attacks.
Fluticasone propionate is a corticosteroid that reduces inflammation where it is applied. Selected UK products prevent asthma symptoms, treat allergic rhinitis or nasal polyps, and relieve corticosteroid-responsive inflammatory skin conditions.
This inhaler combines an inhaled corticosteroid that reduces airway inflammation with a long-acting bronchodilator that helps keep airways open. It is regular maintenance treatment for asthma, not a reliever for acute attacks.
This inhaled combination contains a corticosteroid that reduces airway inflammation and a long-acting bronchodilator that helps keep airways open. It is used regularly for selected people with asthma; a selected Accuhaler presentation is also licensed for defined adults with COPD. It is not a rescue inhaler.
Fluvastatin sodium is a statin that reduces cholesterol production in the liver. It is used with diet and lifestyle measures to treat certain lipid disorders and reduce further cardiac events in selected people with coronary heart disease.
Fluvoxamine maleate is a prescription selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant. In the selected product, it is licensed for major depressive episodes and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
Folic acid is the manufactured form of folate, a B vitamin needed for DNA synthesis and healthy red-blood-cell production. It prevents or treats folate deficiency and reduces the risk of neural-tube defects around conception and early pregnancy.
Folinic acid is an active, reduced form of folate used in specialist cancer care. It protects healthy cells from folate-antagonist toxicity, particularly from methotrexate, and can strengthen fluorouracil’s anticancer effect.
Follitropin alfa is a laboratory-made version of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH). Specialists use it to support ovarian follicle development or, with other hormones, sperm production in selected adults with infertility.
Follitropin alfa and lutropin alfa are recombinant versions of the natural hormones FSH and LH. Together, they stimulate ovarian follicle development in adult women with severe deficiency of both hormones as part of specialist fertility treatment.
Follitropin delta is a recombinant form of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH). It is used under specialist supervision to stimulate the ovaries to develop multiple follicles for assisted reproduction, including IVF and ICSI.
Fondaparinux sodium is a synthetic anticoagulant that reduces the blood’s ability to form harmful clots. The selected UK product is licensed to prevent venous clots in certain surgical or acutely ill adults and to treat particular superficial-vein clots in the leg.
Formoterol + glycopyrronium combines two long-acting bronchodilators in one inhaler. It is regular maintenance treatment for adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), not a rescue inhaler.
Fosaprepitant dimeglumine is an intravenous anti-sickness treatment rapidly converted to aprepitant. It helps prevent chemotherapy-related nausea and vomiting and is used with other anti-sickness treatments.
A prescription treatment given continuously under the skin using a portable pump. It is used for advanced levodopa-responsive Parkinson’s disease when severe movement fluctuations or involuntary movements are not controlled satisfactorily by available medicine combinations.
Foscarnet sodium hexahydrate is an antiviral given into a vein in hospital. It is usually reserved for serious cytomegalovirus eye disease or aciclovir-unresponsive herpes simplex infection in people with substantial immune suppression.
Foscarnet trisodium hexahydrate is an antiviral given by intravenous infusion under specialist supervision. It is mainly used for CMV retinitis in people with AIDS and certain aciclovir-unresponsive herpes simplex infections in immunocompromised people.
Fosfomycin is an antibiotic that kills susceptible bacteria by preventing cell-wall formation. The selected intravenous product is used for certain serious or complicated infections when antibiotics commonly used first are considered inappropriate.
Fosfomycin trometamol is an oral bactericidal antibiotic that blocks bacterial cell-wall formation. The selected UK product is licensed for acute uncomplicated cystitis in women and female adolescents and infection prevention around transrectal prostate biopsy in adult men. The granules must be dissolved in water.
Fosinopril sodium is an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor. It relaxes blood vessels and is licensed to treat high blood pressure and symptomatic heart failure.
Fosphenytoin sodium is an injectable antiseizure treatment that the body rapidly converts into phenytoin. It is mainly used in hospital for tonic-clonic status epilepticus, seizures associated with neurosurgery or head injury, or when oral phenytoin cannot be used.
An oral spleen tyrosine kinase inhibitor for adults with chronic immune thrombocytopenia when other treatments have not worked adequately. It helps reduce immune-mediated platelet destruction.
Fostemsavir tromethamine is an antiretroviral prodrug converted into temsavir. It is used with other antiretrovirals for adults with multidrug-resistant HIV-1 when a suppressive combination cannot otherwise be constructed.
Fremanezumab is a humanised monoclonal antibody that targets calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP). It helps prevent migraine in eligible adults but does not treat an attack that has already started.
Frovatriptan is a prescription triptan for the headache phase of migraine attacks with or without aura in adults. It does not prevent migraines.
Fruquintinib is an oral targeted anticancer treatment that blocks vascular endothelial growth factor receptors. It is licensed for adults with metastatic colorectal cancer previously treated with available established therapies.
Fulvestrant is an endocrine treatment that blocks and reduces oestrogen receptors. It is used for certain hormone-sensitive locally advanced or metastatic breast cancers, alone or with palbociclib.
Furosemide is a loop diuretic, often called a water tablet. It increases urine production to remove excess fluid caused by heart, lung, liver or kidney disease. Selected UK products are also licensed for hypertension.
Fusidic acid is an antibiotic particularly active against susceptible staphylococci. Cream treats limited superficial skin infections; oral and intravenous formulations treat systemic infections under specialist management.
This skin cream combines fusidic acid, an antibiotic, with hydrocortisone acetate, a mild corticosteroid. It treats inflamed eczema or dermatitis with a secondary bacterial infection susceptible to fusidic acid.
Fusidic acid hemihydrate is an ophthalmic antibiotic that acts locally in the eye. It treats bacterial conjunctivitis caused by susceptible organisms, not viral or allergic conjunctivitis.