[Pharmacotherapeutic compass 2000/2001].

The Commission Pharmaceutical Help of the Health Care Insurance Board uses the Pharmacotherapeutical compass to inform the medical profession annually about medical drugs. In the 2000/2001 edition the most important alterations are changes in the introductions of: antidepressants, medicines for peptic disorders, medicines for rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, haematopoietic growth factors, anticonvulsants, medicines for Parkinson, medicines for congestive heart failure, antiretroviral medicines, medicines for osteoporosis, short acting insuline-analogues and oral antihyperglycaemics. The introductions about Horton's neuralgia and erectile dysfunction are new. For some (new) medicines recommendations are made, for the antidepressants and medicines for peptic disorders some recommendations have been changed.