One might claim that the ultimate me-too drug is Spikevax, Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine. After all, it was approved after Comirnaty, Pfizer’s vaccine (albeit by a week).

Recently, “me-too” drugs were again in the news, this time via an article entitled “Vying for Market Share, Companies Heavily Promote ‘Me Too’ Drugs”. The gist of the article is that ...

"Me-too drugs" are the aptly named drugmakers' version of a bandwagon. One company finds a drug that treats a disease, and suddenly every company and its spinoff are developing something similar ...

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Drug developers should should treat patients who volunteer for clinical trials the way they would treat their mothers or husbands or best friends — but often don't. News Today's news ...

I've never really understood the objections to "me-too" drugs. Somehow, the topic of health care makes otherwise sensible people forget everything they ever knew about economics and start spouting ...

A new type of cancer drug that takes the brakes off the body's immune system has given drugmakers some remarkable wins against the deadly disease, but a top U.S. regulator says too many companies ...

I've never understood the ire against me-too drugs. Consumer choice is usually thought of as a good thing: competition reduces prices somewhat, therapeutic side-benefits may be discovered, and ...

I have also written about the benefit of second- and third-generation drugs, which are dismissed as "me-too" drugs by know-nothing critics of the industry, such as Sidney Wolfe and Marcia Angell.

So-called me-too drugs are iterations of existing medications that are similar in structure with only minor differences. Such medications typically result from pharmaceutical companies tweaking ...

Two free-marketeers take the FDA to task on the opinion pages of WSJ today for deciding that some drugs aren't worth approving for sale, in part, because there are drugs just like them already ...

If it's a me-too drug or something similar to what's already on the market, maybe you can skip that mouse testing and just go right into people because there's not a lot of difference.