Brand-name drugs are not clinically superior to their generic counterparts

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 - 02:49 in Health & Medicine

Contrary to the perception of some patients and physicians, there is no evidence that brand-name drugs are clinically superior to their generic counterparts, according to an article in the 3 December issue of JAMA, which examined studies comparing the effectiveness of generic vs. brand-name drugs for treating cardiovascular diseases...

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