Generic drugs and brand name drugs are equally effective and safe. Generic drugs are 80% to 85% cheaper than brand name drugs. Your doctor may in rare cases recommend ...

Generic drugs go through what the Food and Drug Administration calls an abbreviated approval process. But it takes three times as long as FDA reviews of new experimental drugs because of the sheer ...

The Competitive Generic Therapy designation looks to encourage the development of alternatives for drugs with inadequate generic competition. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Wednesday (October 29) a plan to streamline the approval process for biosimilars, which are generic versions of complex biological drugs. These ...

Brand-name medications go through extensive clinical trials to show the safety and efficacy of treatment to receive Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. Once FDA-approved, the brand ...

Lower drug prices depend upon the timely entry of generic competitors at the conclusion of a drug’s patent life. Current legislation, moving through Congress, would limit the ability for generic ...

Defining the steps involved in a successful technology transfer process would benefit biopharma, say the researchers behind a “generic” blueprint intended to help drug makers move more easily from ...

To advance policies that secure the future of a leading U.S. innovative industry, it is important in this instance to gain a deeper understanding of what generic drugs are, what the FTC is challenging ...

Thus, the Scripps work sponsored by Merck was not 'solely for uses reasonably related' to clinical testing for FDA." In so concluding, the majority emphasized the underlying purpose of the ...

Thanks to Congress’ administrative alternative to court litigation of patents, generic drug manufacturers have embraced a new process, known as inter partes review (IPR), and successfully challenged ...