Drugs names are chosen through a collaboration among a few different organizations, including the United States Adopted Names Council (USAN), which is part of the American Medical Association (AMA ...

What a drug is and what it does -- its mechanism of action -- most likely will show up in the name, particularly if it is a first-in-class drug, or one that works differently from those already on ...

While branded prescription drug dispensing accounts for only 5% of Medicare Part D drug claims, according to a new study published today, if brand-name drugs were swapped for generic drugs it ...

Creative ‘brand’-ing When it comes to brand names, there is a little more creativity. The names are meant to identify the drugs in some way. They can represent some type of sound or type of image.

Compounded drugs typically come with a needle and a vial, rather than a pre-filled pen, as the brand-name medications do. This can make them harder to administer and lead to potential dosing errors.

It would seem as though drug namers are also Scrabble players since these are four of the most valuable tiles. If you can still pronounce the name, even without a mouthful of salamanders, it's no good ...

The U.S. Adopted Names Council, composed of representatives from the Food and Drug Administration, American Medical Association, U.S. Pharmacopeia and American Pharmacists Association, works with ...

Nearly 1,500 commonly used drugs have names so similar to at least one other medication that they've already caused mix-ups, says a major study by the U.S. Pharmacopeia, which helps set drug ...

Linguistic Analysis of generic-generic drug name pairs prone to wrong-drug errors for which tall-man lettering is recommended. Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science, 57 (4), 751-758.