In 2021, the US Food and Drug Administration oversaw the marketing of approximately 20 000 medications for human use and 1600 for veterinary use. Some medications are common to both pets and humans, and price differences can be extreme. In 1991, levamisoleintroduced in the 1960s as a veterinary antiparasitic medication-demonstrated efficacy in treating human colon cancer. The introductory human price of Janssen's Ergamisol (brand-name levamisole; $5 per 50-mg tablet) was 100 times the then veterinary price (approximately $0.05 for an equivalent amount). 1 In 2021, demand for ivermectin for treatment of COVID-19, fueled by misinformation, led to people seeking veterinary formulations of the drug, increasing the price 15fold over a month ($6 to $92 for 3 tubes). 2 In this crosssectional study, we sought to compare prices of commonly prescribed medications used to treat both humans and pets.
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