One of the biggest bugbears of the contemporary pharmaceutical industry is the spectre of generic competition. All that time and money invested in research and development, protected so briefly, ...

Generic drugs are incredibly important in the medical field, not only for their effectiveness, but also for their cost-saving potential for both manufacturers and customers. Medication affordability ...

John Wilkerson is a Washington correspondent for STAT who writes about the politics of health care. He is also the author of the twice-weekly D.C. Diagnosis newsletter. Emory is the data editor at ...

A brand-name drug is the original version of a medication that’s FDA-approved to treat a specific condition. Generics contain exact copies of the active ingredient in the original branded drug (an ...

I open my emails to find yet another message from a patient about their amphetamine-dextroamphetamine (the generic form of Aderall) no longer working. Dr. Plutchik, my meds no longer seem to be ...

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The past 18 months has presented the generics and brand pharmaceutical industries with a dilemma unique to the US market: whether a partnership to launch and market a generic version of the brand's ...

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story said Health Canada had approved several generics for semaglutide. They have received several submissions for approval for ...

At the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk recorded another milestone in Canada: for the fourth year in a row, its blockbuster drug Ozempic was the highest-earning ...