New Delhi, Feb. 6 -- United States President Donald Trump launched a new website, 'TrumpRx.gov', to help Americans directly buy over 40 prescription drugs at discounted prices, in a move aimed at addressing the cost-of-living and affordability crisis, the White House said.

According to the White House fact sheet on the service, patients in the US will be able to "access large discounts on many of the most popular and highest-priced medicines in the country", at prices which are "in line with the lowest paid by other developed nations (known as the most-favored-nation, or MFN, price)".

Notably, this move comes ahead of the US mid-term Congressional elections set for November this year, amid widespread challenges facing the Republican par...