The average cost to fill a prescription for the consumer was $10 for generic statins versus $48 for brand names. âGiven this substantial cost difference, it is perhaps not surprising that adherence and cardiovascular outcomes were worse among patients receiving brand-name statins,â study authors wrote. Overall, people who took generic drugs had 8% fewer incidents than people who used brand-name drugs.
Chemotherapy was discovered during World War II when a ship carrying sulfur mustards (a nerve agent to be used in chemical warfare) was bombed and the troops on board were exposed to the chemical. Those men affected tested for depleted bone marrow and lymph systems â cells that naturally divide faster than other cells.
Tumors were described more than 2,000 years before the discovery of chromosomes and DNA; in 500 B.C., the Greek physician Hippocrates named tumors resembling a crab karkinos (from which the word cancer is derived via Latin), meaning crab.