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All right. The drug of the day today is Timelaw. This is a beta blocker.

And it has kind of a couple of purposes. In clinical practice, it's been quite some time since I've seen it

used in the oral dosage form, but I certainly will talk about that a great deal. But I also

wanted to mention there is an eyedrop formulation or maybe a couple formulations as well.

So as you could imagine uses for this medication,

so if it's a beta blocker taking orally for systemic circulation,

we're going to be using that potentially for the usual uses that we use beta blockers for.

You know, atrial fibrillation, hypertension, potentially migraine headache prevention as well.

Again, not used very often.

There's generally other agents that are preferred, but in rare cases, maybe you will see this. So beta blockers,

just a quick reminder, they block beta receptors, adrenergic beta receptors. And ultimately,

this can lead to a reduction in blood pressure and sympathetic outflow,

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