Drugs often have several names. A marketed drug may have up to four different types of names: a chemical name, a company name, a generic...

When a new disease is identified in a group of patients it needs a name so it can be described, researched and treated. But, unlike...

Launching a second brand is a marketing strategy to address an unmet need distinct from the current brand. In the pharmaceutical industry...

The EMA has requested that liposomal medication names be changed to avoid the risk of confusion. All marketing authorisation holders of...

While sitting in a meeting recently I was asked, 'what exactly is the difference between pharma and biopharma?' For most of us, we may...

How biosimilars are named could influence the willingness of pharmacists to substitute such drugs for more expensive biologics, a survey...

In the world of branding, there's a language all its own: Casodex, Grazax, Latisse, Symbicort and Vusion. Each one of those words is the...

EvaluatePharma analysts predict AbbVie's Humira will top pharma's sales charts in 2024, followed by Merck's Keytruda and Celgene's...

Biosimilar Naming Policy Will Help Ensure Patient Safety and Transparency ATLANTA – The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) today...

How are drugs named, and how do names aid in prescription and generic substitution? In William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet,...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Silver Spring, MD) has approved a pill that includes a sensor that digitally tracks if patients...

Faced with skyrocketing costs for developing new drugs, researchers are looking at ways to repurpose older ones — and even some that...

When an investigational prescription drug shows promise for treating a serious illness or filling an unmet medical need, the Food and...

As it stands right now, biosimilars can't be used interchangeably with branded versions, meaning if you were to get a prescription for a...

A new report conducted by health branding agency InterbrandHealth measures the value that brands alone provide pharmaceutical companies....

A new US FDA guidance on how biological products licensed under the Public Health Service Act (PHS Act) need to be named is playing havoc...

Developing a drug from a promising molecule to a potential life-saver can take more than a decade and cost billions of dollars. Speeding...

Where are drugs invented, and how can easily innovation be seeded in new areas? This is the first of DrugPatentWatch's publications...

Have you ever wondered how drugs are named? Is there ever a discernible meaning behind drug names? Who manages this mess anyway–drug...

Firms must navigate legal and linguistic hurdles for approval They are the public face of products that can take many years and hundreds...