Jeremy Greene
Jeremy Greene teaches history and medicine at Johns Hopkins University and sees patients in a community-health center in Baltimore. He is the author of Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine.
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Jorge Gonzalez / Flickr An Age-Old Battle: The FDA Versus the Shill
The kerfuffle over Kim Kardashian’s drug-promoting Instagram selfie is nothing new: As long as the FDA has existed, it’s had to figure out how to regulate drug advertisements in new forms of communication technology.
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Robson#/Flickr Generic Drugs: The Same, but Not
The law requires them to be the same as brand-name drugs in all ways that matter. But what science considers important is a moving target. An Object Lesson.
