Equivalent or Original Drug?
Nowadays you hear about it all the time on TV, sui social, by radio of equivalent drugs. What is meant by equivalent drug? Because it is defined as such? There is currently much to discuss on this issue, let's try to put some order. What is an equivalent drug? The main feature of the equivalent drug is to have the active ingredient ( the substance on which the curative activity of the drug depends) in the same pharmaceutical form as the original drug (originator), what varies are the excipients, or other elements found within the drug in its finished form. They are the excipients (substances free of [...]
