Monster Medications
This medication can cause urine, tears, and sweat to turn orannge-red.
What is rifampin?
This popular Halloween candy was originally marketed as "Chicken Feed."
What is candy corn?
This NSAID carries a boxed warning for increased risk of serious cardiovascular thrombotic events and gastrointestinal bleeding.
What is celecoxib?
This commonly used biologic therapy is marketed as Skyrizi.
What is risankizumab?
This spice blend commonly combines cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves.
What is pumpkin spice?
This smoking cessation medication can cause vivid dreams and unusual sleep disturbances.
What is varenicline?
This New England city became infamous for witch trials in 1692.
What is Salem?
This antiarrhythmic carries a boxed warning against use in patients with permanent atrial fibrillation due to an increased risk of death, stroke, and heart failure.
What is dronedarone?
This single-tablet HIV regimen contains bictegravir, emtricitabine, and tenofovir alafenamide.
What is Biktarvy?
This candy is America's most popular Halloween candy.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
This uric acid lowering medication should be used cautiously in patients with Southeast Asian ancestry due to risk of severe cutaneous adverse reactions associated with HLA-B*5801.
What is allopurinol?
This Connecticut city is home to the Mark Twain House.
What is Hartford?
This immunomodulatory medication used in multiple myeloma requires a REMS program because of severe teratogenicity and thrombosis risk.
What is lenalidomide?
This anti-obesity medication marketed as Contrave combines bupropion with this opioid antagonist.
What is naltrexone?
This Halloween classic film features three resurrected witch sisters in Salem, Massachusetts.
What is Hocus Pocus?
This antiarrhythmic medication can turn a patient's skin blue-gray after long-term use.
What is amiodarone?
In Irish folklore, the original jack-o'-lanterns were carved from this root vegetable before pumpkins became popular.
What is a turnip?
This oral antifungal's use is limited by a boxed warning for severe hepatotoxicity.
What is ketoconazole?
Dapagliflozin + metformin
What is Xigduo XR?
This annual event ends on the first Sunday of November.
What is Daylight Saving Time?
This antiplatelet medication can cause shortness of breath despite normal lung function.
What is ticagrelor?
This Celtic festival is often considered the origin of Halloween.
Samhain?
A patient must be HLA-B*57:01 negative before starting this HIV medication because of a potentially fatal hypersensitivity reaction.
What is abacavir?
This combination inhaler marketed as Trelegy Ellipta contains fluticasone, umeclidinium, and this LABA.
What is vilanterol?
The very first time the White House was officially decorated for Halloween took place in 1958, when this First Lady hung paper owls and goblins.
Who is Mamie Eisenhower?