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 ...

The Land of Enchantment is anything but. New Mexico is the most drug-addled state in the union, and its teenagers are the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...