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Shraddha Chakradhar is Nature Medicine's associate news editor in Boston.
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Chakradhar, S., Khamsi, R. Angst about exclusivity: The potential cost of incentivizing makers of generic drugs. Nat Med 23, 1114–1116 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1017-1114
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