{"id":10950,"date":"2023-05-16T06:29:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T00:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10950"},"modified":"2025-03-29T23:39:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T18:09:32","slug":"what-is-a-generic-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-a-generic-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Generic Drug?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Generic Drug:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>medication that has exactly the same active ingredient as the brand-name drug<\/strong> and yields the same therapeutic effect.<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>same in dosing, safety, strength, quality<\/strong>, <strong>the way it works<\/strong>, the way it is taken, and the way it should be used.<\/li>\n<li>These similarities <strong>help to demonstrate bioequivalence<\/strong>, which means that <strong>a generic medicine works in the same way <\/strong>and provides the same clinical benefit <strong>as the brand-name medicine.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They also <strong>have the same risks and benefits <\/strong>as their brand-name counterparts.<\/li>\n<li>Generic drugs <strong>do not need to contain the same inactive ingredients<\/strong> as the brand-name product.<\/li>\n<li>A generic drug <strong>can only be marketed after the brand name drug&#8217;s patent has expired<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Generic drugs are <strong>usually much less expensive<\/strong> than brand-name drugs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is an allopathic medicine?<\/h3>\n<p>A system in which medical doctors and other healthcare professionals (such as nurses, pharmacists, and therapists) treat symptoms and diseases using drugs, radiation, or surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generic drugs do not need to contain the same inactive ingredients as the brand-name product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}