Q. As an endocrinologist, I treat patients who have adrenal insufficiency. They cannot make their own cortisol and rely on daily replacement with the synthetic cortisol, oral hydrocortisone. Recently ...

Generic drugs account for more than 90 percent of prescriptions filled in the United States. Recent studies have found concering variability in quality and safety America’s generic drug supply, most ...

The ETHIC Act is an important first step for pruning patent thickets and curbing the endless litigation that keeps lower-cost drugs off the shelf.

A generic attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) drug manufactured by Mallinckrodt has been found by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to not be sufficiently equivalent to its reference ...

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No one knows better than Sarah Louise Butler what it means to encounter a drug shortage. Butler was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, a painful autoimmune disease, in her 20s. She describes the ...

Americans are facing at least two prescription drug crises simultaneously. One is the outrageously high cost of drugs, which runs to more than $500 billion per year. The other relates to extreme drug ...