From Ozempic to Wegovy: Ensuring Your Weight Loss Prescription is Authentic - July 2, 2024

The more popular or costly the drug, the bigger the gray market, the more middlemen clamoring for it, and the more criminal opportunity. – Katherine Eban, Why Counterfeit Ozempic Is a Global-Growth Industry “It must be Ozempic. She looks great!” “He’s got Ozempic face.” “You’re having trouble eating right and exercising?

FTC challenges bogus patent listings: Is your prescription’s price high due to pharma fraud? - May 8, 2024

Why are your medication prices so high? For one, because there are no regulations in the U.S. to cap the price of prescription drugs, your particular therapy may lack the competition necessary to lower its cost. Despite drug companies' notorious maneuvers to retain exclusivity through patent strategies such as evergreening and pay-for-delay, recent warnings from the U.S.

Medicare finally gets to throw its weight around. But for which medications? - September 6, 2022

Under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Medicare is authorized to wield its purchasing power to negotiate lower prices on some of the most costly medications in the Part D and B programs.

Where Your Drug Is Made Depends On Who You Ask - March 30, 2022

Federal Law and Drug Labeling: Differing Definitions of An Imported Drug Your medication is – most likely – not made in the United States.  We reviewed the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA), the Tariff Act, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act because they each can affect how a drug manufacturer labels a drug product in terms of its country of origin.

How can I determine where a drug is manufactured? - October 15, 2017

See our latest research, published January 2022: Not Made in the USA: The Global Pharmaceutical Supply Chain and Prospects for Safe Drug Importation Prescription drugs sold in the U.S. are manufactured in facilities located all over the world. Many medications you rely on are not "MADE IN USA" as you might imagine.