# A dose of reality about generic drugs

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDMED 2020
- Speaker: Katherine Eban
- Year: 2020
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/katherine_eban_a_dose_of_reality_about_generic_drugs)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Investigative journalist Katherine Eban set out to report on a seemingly straightforward question: Are generic drugs really identical to their brand-name counterparts? The answer sparked a decade of interviews, meetings with whistleblowers, on-the-ground reporting across four continents and digging into confidential FDA documents. In this alarming talk, she takes us inside overseas manufacturing plants and exposes the fraud behind many low-cost generic medicines.

## Lectures

1. [A dose of reality about generic drugs](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/katherine_eban_a_dose_of_reality_about_generic_drugs/3197031afa0c), 17 min (TED's player)