A new report on MSN Health talks about the dangers of generic drugs. While some of them work just fine, others don’t. The article chronicles one woman’s struggle with feeling lousy and going from doctor to doctor before realizing it was the generics.

I can relate to this story. I had almost the same thing happen. I had a VERY bad reaction to one generic and was told by the nurse practioner that it “must be in my head” because the “pills are virtually the same.” They weren’t the same. Not at all.
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Brand-name drugs do not offer any advantages, over generic counterparts states the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Dr. Aaron Keeselheim of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston found that contrary to the belief, of some doctors and patients that the costly brand-name drugs are no more effective than the generic drugs.
There have been 30 studies since 1984 comparing the two types of cardiovascular drugs. The findings of the studies were that there weren’t any advantages to the brand-name drugs.
In a interview Dr. Kesselheim said, "if a patient is prescribed a generic drug they should be …read more