Category: Substitute Medicines

Generic Medicines: an  Overview A generic drug is a medicine that is made to be the same as a brand-name drug already on the market in terms of dosage form, safety, strength, route of administration, quality, performance characteristics, and the way it is meant to be used. These similarities help show bioequivalence, which means that…

Pharmaceutical companies prepare formulae for various innovative medicines and send them for approval to the FDA before their launch in the market. The approval is for the dosage, as well as the safety, effectiveness, labelling, and packaging of the product. Only after the FDA has verified these characteristics will the manufacturing company be allowed to…