The Competitive Generic Therapy designation looks to encourage the development of alternatives for drugs with inadequate generic competition. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a ...

ICANN has started to accept applications for new generic top level domains, which will include words for brands, and non-Latin characters. The organisation said that the move "could trigger a dramatic ...

Consumers and Congress members pushing for cheaper alternatives to the EpiPen and other high-priced drugs are seeking answers about a stubborn backlog of generic drug applications at the Food and Drug ...

The Food and Drug Administration has accepted Lannett’s abbreviated new drug application for fluticasone propionate and salmeterol inhalation powder in three strengths — a generic of GlaxoSmithKline's ...

Off-patent medicines provide people with access to high-quality essential treatment options that can be significantly less expensive than branded on-patent medicines. Off-patent therapies — generics ...

PARSIPPANY, N.J. (AP) -- Generic drugmaker Actavis Inc. said Tuesday it has filed an application with federal regulators to market a generic version of the anti-inflammatory drug Rayos. Rayos is ...

At a time when the use of low-cost generic drugs is being embraced as one of the few ways to rein in skyrocketing health care costs, the Food and Drug Administration has a backlog of more than 800 ...

Two years ago, the FDA was authorized to start collecting fees from generic drug makers in order to fund two key goals – increase the number of facilities to be inspected, especially overseas, and ...

FDA on Thursday announced that it is implementing a number of changes to speed the approval process for generic drugs and reduce a backlog of more than 1,000 generic drug applications, the AP/Chicago ...

Now that the Food and Drug Administration plans to fast-track generic drug applications in hopes of spurring competition and lowering medicines costs, a key question should be asked: Can the agency ...