(Bloomberg Business) — The Food and Drug Administration today warned that two drugs with similar names have been mixed up dozens of times by doctors and pharmacists.
The antidepressant Brintellix and the anti-clotting agent Brilinta have been confused at least 50 times. Though the agency has no records of cases in which patients took the wrong drug, it's concerned enough to alert the public.
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