That's the trade-off. Deciding on brand name vs. generic When it comes to deciding whether to buy generic products or brand name, I usually go generic if the product is a regulated commodity.

The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a generic version of the daily injectable GLP-1 medicine liraglutide for people with type 2 diabetes, opening the door for lower-priced ...

Several generic drugmakers that will produce versions of Pfizer's COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid have agreed to sell the medicine in low- and middle-income countries for $25 a course or ...

Shubat said she and Karet have to be vigilant for generic names that sneakily come too close to the original manufacturer’s name or the eventual brand name, which could give the company an ...

A radical-sounding solution would drastically curtail this experience and save billions of dollars in the bargain: End insurance coverage for low-cost generic drugs, which represent 90 percent of ...

FDA approves generic form of $750 pill Daraprim By Shelby Lin Erdman and Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN 2 min read Updated 1:48 AM EST, Sat February 29, 2020 ...

With 1.9 billion prescription claims, the number of manufacturers of the generic drug was strongly associated with relative price (P<0.001 for trend) (Figure 1). For drugs with one manufacturer of ...

Flovent — a common asthma inhaler — will be discontinued in 2024. There will be a generic version available, but the change could make it hard for some patients to get their medication.

The F.D.A., which approved more than 1,000 new generic drug products last year, faces a vast challenge in safeguarding these medications. Nearly forty percent of all our generic drugs are made in ...

A private insurer, UnitedHealthcare, tried to incentivize oncologists to prescribe generic chemotherapies by giving them financial bonuses for doing so. For example, a generic medication that ...