Prescription name
The prescription name (or brand or trade name) of a medicine is developed by the manufacturing company. A medicine may have more than one prescription name if it is made by more than one company.
| Author | Jeannette Curtis |
| Author | Caroline Rea, RN, BS, MS |
| Editor | Kathleen M. Ariss, MS |
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