What medicines are made from animal products?
Medication Use (Indication) Animal Source Enoxaparin (Lovenox) Blood thinner (anticoagulant) used to treat or prevent blood clots Pigs Desiccated thyroid (Armour Thyroid, Nature-Throid) A type of hormone therapy used to treat hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid) Pigs What drug is derived from animals? Calcimar and Miacalcin are calcitonin hormones derived from Coho salmon and used to treat…