Many patients think that more expensive brand medications are better than their cheaper generic equivalents.

As a result, she said, consumers will have access to less expensive generic equivalents.

About 40 percent of all prescription drugs have generic equivalents.

The percentages do not add up to 100 percent because less than half of all prescription durgs have generic equivalents.

In spite of the study, many physicians are not comfortable with their patients taking the branded generic equivalents.

How can you persuade a consultant who prescribes an expensive drug that the generic equivalent would do just as well?

Unfortunately, generic equivalents are not available for every brand-name medicine.

If a brand-name drug has generic equivalents, their prices will be displayed as well.

The accounting agency said there were generic equivalents for 21 of the 77 drugs in its study.

While he, and his men, no longer have "canon" rules, they can be used as their generic equivalents.