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Abstract Fearing health hazards due to drug misuse seems to have attracted the attention of many investigators. The percentage of current cancers attributable to long-term drug use is rising steadily. Awareness of potential drug complications will enable physicians to prevent some untoward reactions and to promptly recognize and treat others. Adriamycin is an effective chemotherapeutic agent in the treatment of various neoplasms, however, until now the focus of concern for human health hazards from this antibiotic has been upon its cardiotoxicity, but other side effects did not seem to have received much attention by research workers. Chloramphenicol (CAP) is another popular, broad-spectrum antibiotic, which has enjoyed extensive use in both medical and veterinary practice, but now its propensity for producing blood dyscrasia has become recognized and as a consequence, the use of CAP in many countries is now restricted to just a few indications. Moreover, in other countries, it has been entirely withdrawn from the markets, but still in Egypt, CAP is continued to be used for common conditions. |