title: FDA drug list: key to generic substitution.
abstract: Americans sometimes pay a premium price for brand name drugs when lower - priced products that are "therapeutically equivalent" are available. Two lanmark projects recently unveiled by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Federal Trade Commission may help consumers save money on the prescription drugs they buy.
mesh_terms: D002380:Catalogs, Drug as Topic; D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000191:economics*; D005569:Formularies as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D013810:Therapeutic Equivalency; D014481:United States; D014486:United States Food and Drug Administration