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Judith Richards wrote: > . . . examples of recent drug names created with help of naming > consultants, along with comments from the consultants about what > the names are intended to convey: > -- Mirapex, for Parkinson's disease. ``It sounds soft and friendly, > and also you think of miraculous.'' We should have called in these consultants for the naming of l-dihydroxyphenylalanine a.k.a. levodopa (cleans the drugs out of your system?) a.k.a. L-dopa (South American recreational drug?) Phil Tompkins Hoboken NJ 60/9