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List of ibuprofen brand names

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ6623846 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ibuprofen, an analgesic and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), is sold under many brand names around the world. The most common are Brufen (its earliest registered trademark), Advil, Motrin, and Nurofen.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 30-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around List, ibuprofen and brand.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6623846. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of ibuprofen brand names” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.