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Why drug names are so increasingly weird
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- 16 hours ago
- 2 min read
By Ellen Jean Hirst, ehirst@tribpub.com Chicago Tribune and edited by Pharmanaming.com
Naming a brand drug is a lot harder than it used to be.
With thousands of drugs on the market, the No. 1 reason drug names are rejected by the Food and Drug Administration is that the agency doesn't want names to be too similar when prescriptions are filled.

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