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10 strange drug names

As a companion piece to my piece from last week, “How do prescription drugs get such crazy names?”, I also wrote a piece focusing on ten of the crazier generic names for prescription drugs. It’s up live now on TheWeek.com:

My latest article for TheWeek.com is about the generic names for drugs and where they come from:

Inspired by the topic, I made a video for your entertainment:

Posted in fun, The Week

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