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Zaleplon
Zaleplon: Brand name: Sonata. A sedative hypnotic drug in a class closely related the benzodiazepines, affecting the central nervous system, used as a sleep drug. For more information, see: zaleplon.
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- Barotitis Middle ear problems due to changing atmospheric pressures, as when a plane descends to land. The problems…
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