Rivaroxaban, adalimumab and empagliflozin don’t exactly roll off the tongue. Meet Stephanie and Gail, the two women who get to name pretty much every new generic drug.
Rivaroxaban, adalimumab, empagliflozin.
“It can be a little strange,” she said. “It’s not unusual to see us talking to ourselves in our offices.”Shubat said she and Karet have to be vigilant for generic names that sneakily come too close to the original manufacturer’s name or the eventual brand name, which could give the company an unfair advantage after the patent expires and generic makers try to compete.
The anti-anxiety drug lorazepam, for instance, would share “azepam” with similar medications; cortisone derivatives would have “cort” somewhere in their generic name. She also said USAN will put the kibosh on generic names that include the letters W, K, H, J and Y, because they could create confusion abroad for non-English speakers with different pronunciations.
Basically, there are only so many ways you can attach syllables to stems, and USAN and other international bodies already have come up with about 11,000 generic names over the last half a century.
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