Many medications and drugs have names ending in "ine" or "is". In reality, this observation is based on naming conventions in ...

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 ...

From RTÉ Radio 1's Morning Ireland in 2014, why is the cost of generic drugs so high? Generic names were introduced in the 1950s and are the official, non-proprietary names for the active drug.

But some drug names seem to break all the rules. Eli Lilly’s Taltz, approved for treating plaque psoriasis in 2016, doesn’t sound like much of anything. It is, however, ...