What’s In A (Drug) Name?
3 min readMay 3, 2022
A list of licensed biological products targeted to a variety of diseases is maintained in the Purple Book, a database regularly updated by the US FDA; the Orange Book is a list of approved non-biological pharmaceuticals.
According to a Kaiser Family Foundation report from April 2022, 62% of adults in the US take prescription medications. Americans spent nearly $370 billion on prescription drugs in 2019. A 2018 study by…
