Last year, the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging launched a bipartisan effort to expose the public health and national security risks America’s overreliance on foreign-made generic drugs poses to ...

Investigation raises concerns about lack of FDA quality testing for generic drugs By some estimates, about 90% of prescriptions in the U.S. are filled with generic drugs. The Food and Drug ...

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Officials and policymakers say direct-to-consumer drug advertising encourages patients to seek treatments they don’t need and raises heath care costs, but the true picture is more nuanced.

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 ...

Oct. 22 -- Health insurance only covers some of 68-year-old Loretta Jones' prescriptions, so to pay for all of them, plus other expenses, the Albuquerque, N.M., senior remortgaged her home. Twice.

America learned during the pandemic that it should never depend on our adversaries for our necessities. But if President Donald Trump's tariffs mistakenly include generic pharmaceuticals, we just ...