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In a crowded field, how to choose a name real enough to please the feds and original enough to differentiate your product Choosing a name...

The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) today praised the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for issuing draft guidance requiring...

You may have seen medical products that claim to be "FDA cleared," "FDA registered," "FDA listed" or "FDA approved" - but what do these...

Most people have no problem with famous names like Enbrel®, Prozac®, and Viagra®. But when it comes to understanding new drug names, such...

Communication is often seen as a touchy subject when it comes to the healthcare sector, given the tight regulations and fierce...

Learn about the building blocks of a great brand strategy that will have the potential to capture the full commercial value from a...

The Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) is the part of any drug that produces the intended effects. Some drugs, such as combination...

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...

The Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA), the US largest trade group representing generic pharmaceutical and biosimilar companies,...

A Federal Register notice from FDA addressed comments on the guidance on Proprietary Naming of Biological Products and the agency’s...

Drug names start out as alien words: random collections of syllables that can sometimes seem almost as mind-boggling as the complicated...

The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) and American College of Endocrinology (ACE) proposed Adiposity-Based Chronic...

With more than 30,000 proprietary drugs in the United States alone, coming up with a unique brand name is no easy task. Cialis, Eliquis,...

The medicines regulatory environment is evolving rapidly in response to the changing environment. Advances in science and technology have...

We all use the term “probiotic" so often, but may not think of what it means. The Russian Nobel Laureate Elie Metchnikoff, best known for...

The rise of global consumerism has shifted the healthcare landscape tremendously. People expect sophisticated levels of transparency and...

CNN)Yearly lists of the "most popular baby names" show how tastes change over time. While Jennifer, Heather, Michael and Jason may have...

People with neuropathic pain have struggled to find relief with conventional drugs. Researchers are investigating whether more meaningful...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Medtronic’s MiniMed 670G hybrid closed looped system, the first FDA-approved device...

The intellectual property is secure. The science is sound. You’re about to make your pitch for funding. The scary next step for a biotech...

Joint venture will research diabetes treatments Joshua Riff, who was a senior executive at UnitedHealth Group’s Optum, will be CEO of the...

61% of patients reported that they were likely to ask for a specific prescription medication by name, implying research prior to...

Tracking and tracing the use of all biologics, including biosimilars, enhances patient safety. Where there are multiple companies...

The role of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) as a regulator is to protect and promote public and animal health by evaluating and...

With Viagra and Prozac rivaling McDonald's and Coca-Cola among today's most frequently used brand names, it's no surprise that...

The European Generic and Biosimilar Medicines Association (EGA) has changed its name to Medicines for Europe. In a press release issued...

South Korean drug manufacturer Hanmi is building a $200 million manufacturing plant and R&D center in China, though it won't, apparently,...

The world's top three therapy areas accounted for 68 percent of the overall pharmaceutical industry pipeline as of Q1 2016, according to...

GlaxoSmithKline is teaming up with Google's parent company Alphabet to create a new company focused on developing bioelectronic...

Much has been discussed, and some dismissed, when it comes to value-based care in the pharma industry. However, no one can deny that the...

Even as the FDA has increased scrutiny of India, it’s been approving generic drug applications from the country’s firms at a record pace....