A Medicine that Differs Slightly from Another Can Have a Big Health Benefit

First, there often are critical differences in clinical safety or effectiveness among drugs that act through similar mechanisms. Second, even if two drugs are each effective in 40% of patients with a particular symptom or disease, each of them may not work in the same 40%. Third, “supplemental,” or secondary, approvals of drugs — which […]



via John Goodman's Health Policy Blog http://healthblog.ncpa.org/a-medicine-that-differs-slightly-from-another-can-have-a-big-health-benefit/