Medical Inspection – Health Blog

She easiest way to get more generic versions of biotechnology (bio-generic) drugs onto the U.S. market would be to pass a law allowing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve them. The hardest part would then be the need for the FDA to figure out how to structure a sensible approval process.

A new Medicaid rule has retail pharmacies worried that lower reimbursements for popular generic drugs might cause their profits—and their business—to disappear. But the pharmacies had better not hold their breath as they wait for Congress to come to their rescue. Published on July 6, 2007, the new rule essentially implements a congressional law in [...]