Generic drugs are the rare part of American health care that actually drives down costs. In 2024, they accounted for 90 ...

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Generic drugs are cheaper copies of brand drugs, offering significant savings to patients. Once a brand-name drug's patent expires, competitors can apply to make generic versions. Generic ...

Generic medications are not the same as brand medications. Small differences in ingredients that are permitted by the FDA may ...

Brand-name combination drugs may be more expensive than buying each drug separately, and had Medicare swapped out these expensive drugs, it could have saved $925 million in 2016, a new study published ...

Artificial Intelligence–Based Digital Histologic Classifier for Prostate Cancer Risk Stratification: Independent Blinded Validation in Patients Treated With Radical Prostatectomy This study evaluated ...

Generic drugs are created to offer lower-cost alternatives to more expensive brand-name drugs. Brand-name drugmakers are given periods of patent exclusivity, allowing them to sell their higher-priced ...

What’s in a name? More than you might think, when it comes to medication monikers. Most Americans (60%) would prefer brand-name drugs—but end up buying generic versions because of the cost, new ...

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Investigation raises concerns about lack of FDA quality testing for generic drugs By some estimates, about 90% of prescriptions in the U.S. are filled with generic drugs. The Food and Drug ...