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Ranbaxy Labs Extends Roots in South Africa

...0 Million) and will make Ranbaxy the fifth largest generic pharmaceutical company in South Africa. Ranbaxy ...pany producing a wide range of quality, affordable generic medicines, trusted by healthcare professionals and patients across geographies. Ranbaxy's continued ...

Nexus Between Psychiatrists and Drug Firms Dangerous, Say Critics

...n though there are cheaper alternatives, including generic versions of Prozac. "Prozac is just as good if not better, and yet we are migrating to the expensive drug instead of the generics," Dr. Sharfstein said. "I think it's the marketing." It is illegal for drug makers to pay doctors directly to prescri...

GlaxoSmithKline, Brazil Expected To Sign Deal on Providing Antiretroviral at Reduced Cost

...sued a compulsory license to produce a lower-cost, generic version of Merck's antiretroviral Efavirenz. Wor...ry would purchase from an India-based drug maker a generic version of Efavirenz if Merck did not offer the drug at a lower price. Brazil asked Merck to reduce ...

Web-based Asthma Program Improves Disease Management for Black Students

...ast, a control group of 152 students had access to generic asthma websites. The web-based program, which th... when compared with a control group with access to generic asthma education websites. During the study, the treatment group reported slightly less than one n...

US Drugmaker Slapped Huge Fine for Misleading Doctors Over Addictive Painkiller

... Generic firms, including Teva and Endo, had sold generic versions of Oxycontin, but have since stopped making the products and are not accused of any wrongdoing in connection with promoting their products, reports said....

Thailand Will Not Issue Compulsory Licenses for Patented Drugs

...companies offer prices lower than those charged by generic drug makers, Reuters AlertNet reports. Mongkol's c...the condition that the country agrees not to allow generic versions of the drug into the market, Siriwat Thiptaradol, secretary-general of Thailand's Food and ...

Rajasthan Government Urged to Keep a Close Watch on Doctors

...te government should ask doctors to prescribe only generic medicines and monitor the prescriptions so that no...e government has directed all of them to prescribe generic medicines, a senior official in the medical & health department said. The salts used in generic an...

Sylvester Stallone Regrets Smuggling Banned Substances to Australia

... it. The magistrate was told Jintropin was a generic human hormone growth banned from sale in the US, and while Stallone had a US prescription for the testosterone, it is banned in Australia. Stallone has already pleaded guilty. In a letter to the court, he said, "I made a terrible mistake, not be...

FDA Approves Ranbaxys Allergy Drug

...further expand our product portfolio of affordable generic alternatives which have a favorable impact on the ...ny. RPI is engaged in the sale and distribution of generic and branded prescription products in the US healthcare system....

Spending on Diabetes Drugs Soars in US

...oing forward, the report said. Use of lower cost generic drugs could mitigate pricing pressures, said Medco, a pharmacy benefits manager that negotiates prescription drug costs for companies and other large clients. But while new medicines and combination therapies can be expensive, the cost of treating ...

Gilead's AIDS Drug Awaits Patent in India

...harmaceutical major Gilead, which has entered into generic licensing deals with 10 Indian pharma firms to dis...patent is issued," said Alton. Gilead has signed generic licensing deals with 10 Indian pharma majors to distribute Viread in India and 94 other resource-lim...

Avandia Could Increase Risk of Heart Attack, New Study

...uarter of the year due to a strong pound and tough generic competition in the US. But the company said its two best-selling drugs - Advair for asthma and Avandia for type 2 diabetes - performed well. Total sales of Advair, or Seretide as it is known in Europe, were up 11% to 835m, and sales of Avandia grew...

Medical College Students Help Change Global Health Policy

...ailability, cost-effectiveness and the interest of generic firms in producing it. Such statin medicines have ...enter -- were successful in their efforts to get a generic version of Zocor included on the list of essential medicines. Now, the United Nations and other phil...

Mylan Announces Final FDA Approval for Fluoxetine Capsules

...Capsules USP, 40 mg. Fluoxetine Capsules are the generic version of Eli Lilly and Company's Prozac(R) Capsu...ures, markets and distributes an extensive line of generic and proprietary products....

Perrigo Receives FDA Approval to Market Coated Fruit Nicotine Gum

...so develops, manufactures and markets prescription generic drugs, active pharmaceutical ingredients and consumer products, and operates manufacturing facilities in the United States, Israel, United Kingdom, Mexico, Germany and China. Note: Certain statements in this press release are "forward-looking stat...

Combination Therapies Continue to Thrive Among Pharma Brands

... are relatively cheap and a great solution to many generic woes," said Elio Evangelista, research team leader at Cutting Edge Information. Many companies can produce combination therapies for a fraction of the initial costs to develop the ingredient medications. Furthermore, combination drugs can often garne...

Mylan Announces Tentative FDA Approval for Its ANDA

...ine Hydrochloride Extended-release Tablets are the generic version of GlaxoSmithKline's Paxil CR(R). Paroxeti...ures, markets and distributes an extensive line of generic and proprietary products....

Long Island Seniors Rally for Rx Affordable Prescription Drugs and Cell Phone Protections

...ewer and, in many cases, more expensive drugs when generic and less expensive alternatives are just as effective. According to a report in the April 2007 New England Journal of Medicine, 94% of doctors report having some type of relationship with pharmaceutical companies. "We want to be sure that the drugs...

Mylan Wins Its Amlodipine Case With Pfizer

...s. We are further pleased that our first to market generic amlodipine products have saved patients, corporati...care costs." Amlodipine Besylate Tablets are the generic version of Pfizer's Norvasc(R) Tablets, which had U.S. sales of approximately $2.7 billion for the 1...

Love Drug may Help to Bridge the Gap Between the Couples

...the bond between mother and child. There is also a generic drug by the same name. University of New South Wales (NSW) psychologist Adam Guastella is administering oxytocin through a nasal spray during some marriage guidance counseling sessions. "We think oxytocin may offer a new method to enhance treatme...

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