Did you know that the reason Martha Stewart went to prison was due to an anti-cancer drug? It's a little drug known as Erbitux (Cetuximab is the generic name). Apparently she sold her stock in the company that was producing Erbitux the day before the FDA announced it wasn't approved. The really sad part? It turns out Erbitux was an effective chemo drug and it later went on to be FDA approved. Yikes...
Also, for those of you not in the medical field - when we are taught pharmacology in school we learn the generic names for drugs. That's because the trade names are always changing and there's all kinds of combo pills coming out now. So if you ask your doctor about a drug and they get a confused look on their face it's usually because they don't know the trade name. I've seen the residents look up several drugs of their patients and then go Oh... It's just lisinopril and blah blah blah. Just FYI...
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ha, my mama does that too. She usually know both names, but when she is telling my what to buy for a cold she always says get "loratadine and phenlyphrine" never suphaped PE and equate's Claratin knock off. (forgive me if I butchered those spellings...)
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