Generic drugs contain the same active ingredient as their brand-name counterparts. However, they usually cost much less than the brand-name version. Before the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

Katherine Eban is an investigative journalist and the author of the New York Times bestseller Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom. For the 16 years that Dr. Brian Westerberg, a ...

Most Americans are unhappy about the cost of drug prices. In 2016, the U.S. spent $450 billion on prescription drug costs, and spending is projected to increase to $610 billion by 2021. Even though 90 ...

Generic drugs are supposed to work just as well as their brand-name counterparts. Once a patent lifts, generic-drug companies find alternative ways to manufacture a drug that should work ...

Kevin A. Schulman ([email protected]) is a professor of medicine at Stanford University, in Stanford, California. He is a board member and shareholder of Grid Therapeutics (an early stage ...

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 options ...

Orange resident Wayne King had a simple enough question: How do prescription drugs get named? My initial guess was there must be some blue-ribbon panel of experts involved, or maybe a fancy computer ...

Khadija Khartit is a strategy, investment, and funding expert, and an educator of fintech and strategic finance in top universities. She has been an investor, entrepreneur, and advisor for more than ...