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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The U.S. spent $722.5 billion on pharmaceuticals in 2023. Although brand-name drugs consume four out of every 5 dollars America ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Several factors prevent the drug manufacturing industry from increasing supply to meet demand for scarce anesthetic drugs, which have been in a severe shortage for two years, according to a Med City ...

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