A citizen-funded quality study of commonly prescribed medicines has found no difference in quality between expensive branded drugs and the far cheaper generics, including govt-supplied medicines, even as prices of some top brands can be as much as 14 times higher for the same drug, said the news report in the Times of India recently. The findings come from the Citizens Generic vs Branded Drugs Quality Project by Kerala-based non-profit Mission for Ethics and Science in Health

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