High Prices for Drugs With Generic Alternatives: The Curious Case of Duexis.

JAMA Intern Med

Section of General Internal Medicine, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut3Associate Editor, JAMA Internal Medicine.

Published: March 2017

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