My Prescription Pills Look Different—What’s That About?

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Don’t be surprised—or alarmed—if a refill of your prescription medication suddenly comes in a different color and shape. It may just be that you received either a generic version of your brand-name medication or a different generic drug if you were already using a generic. Although approved by the FDA as pharmacologically equivalent stand-ins for […]

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