Katherine Eban·TEDMED 2020
A dose of reality about generic drugs
Summary
The speaker is an investigative journalist. I thought that this was an old story when she started to talk. It’s because it took about 10 years to explore imitated generics medicines after she received a phone call in 2008. It has said about the side effects of generics, releases, and no effects of generic medicines.
Generics medicines have no brand name and not protected by a registered trademark thus it’s affordable, it can help many people, and it’s based on the FDA’s reassurance.
However, it has been light regulation but the data was falsified. By inspecting plants in India and China, much fraud was found. Failing testing drugs were sold also, it should get thrown out.
The speaker suggests that rigorous oversight, unannounced inspections, and systematic testing of drugs are more necessary. And then patients can demand more quality and safety as well.
Words in this story
swindle/ cheating, fraud, deceptio
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