FDA Decision Encourages Lamictal Generics
...he reasons for the withdrawal before approving any generic version. The investigation found no evidence of... due to run out until 2009. Lamictal already faces generic competition in Europe, where its patents have expired. Lamictal (lamotrigine) is an antiepileptic...FDA Warns Migraine Medicine Makers
...government had warned the world's largest maker of generic drugs and 19 other companies that they are illegally selling// migraine medicines without federal approval. The Food and Drug Administration said the 20 warning letters were part of an effort to halt the marketing of unapproved and potentially dang...Mail-Order Drugs: Deal or No Deal?
...lightly less expensive when purchased by mail, but generic drugs were more expensive by mail. When we combine the prices for brand-name and generic prescriptions, any differences virtually disappear,’ said Robert I. Garis, M.B.A., Ph.D., associate ...Dr Reddy's Eyeing for Generics Arm of Merck
...oratories, one of India's largest manufacturers of generic medicines,// is the latest Indian company working ...d in January that it was considering a sale of its generic drugs business to help pay for its Euro 10.5 billion (7 billion pounds) acquisition in September of ...Drug Companies Hit Out at Thai Generic Drug Scheme
...over its decision to issue compulsory licences for generic medicines. // While Thailand argues it will make cheap generic drugs more widely available to its citizens, drug companies maintain that the plan undermines patent...Merck Announces Plans for Licensing Atripla Widely in Developing World
... since once licenses are granted, competition from generic versions of this fixed dose combination will be impossible without the granting of compulsory licenses for rival versions. Although Merck will be able to import Atripla into eleven countries on the basis of US Food and Drug Administration registra...Drug Companies May Be Penalize For Overcharging NHS Tax Payers Money on Branded Drugs
...fit on any medicine they sell to the NHS. However, generic drug companies are able to produce and sell copyca...companies not going to yield without a good fight, generic drug companies waiting in the wing and millions of pounds of tax payer’s money at stake. R.S...Merck Cuts Price of Efavirenz for Developing Countries Again
...ke the branded version of efavirenz cheaper than a generic import in Thailand, where a compulsory license was recently issued to allow importation of efavirenz from India. For least developed countries and medium human development index countries with an adult HIV prevalence of 1% or more, the price of St...Drug Companies Should Not Have a Monopoly Over Clinical Trial Data
...ical trial data—could jeopardize efforts to create generic versions of// life-saving medicines and harm publi...t data exclusivity could impede efforts to produce generic versions of the "flu drug" oseltamivir in the event of a global flu pandemic, and data exclusivity i...Generic Drug Utilization On The Rise
...ting their prescription drug costs by switching to generic medications//. New data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) find that generic use is especially high among those in the new Medicare drug benefit, with generics accounting for ne...Thailand Backs Off Threat to Break Drug Patents
...est way to bring prices down is by competition and generic production," Hoen told SciDev.Net. She cited a similar case in Brazil, which ended up with relatively high drug prices being fixed for a number of years. The ministry has not yet made clear what steps will be taken for Plavix. Source-Bio-Bio Te...Ranbaxy Gets FDA Approval for Depression Drug
...lorida, is engaged in the sale and distribution of generic and branded prescription products in the US healthcare system. Ranbaxy's continued focus on R&D has resulted in several approvals in developed markets and significant progress in New Drug Discovery Research. The company's foray into Novel Drug Deli...Pharma Major Ind-Swift to Enter US, Japan
...anufacturer of the medicine. The US is the biggest generic drug market in the world. He said Ind-Swift was also tying up with top US based generic and biotechnology companies for its future expansion plans in North America, adding that the company...New Microchip for Protein Sorting
...ant entities, it has the potential to be used as a generic molecular sieving structure for a more complex, integrated biomolecule preparation and analysis system," said Jongyoon Han, the Karl Van Tassel Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and associate professor of biological engineering at MIT and...To Patent or Not-A Question of Life
... India has been an important source of affordable generic medicines for quite a while. This being because ...nization rules on intellectual property. A lot of generic drugs used for treating AIDS are produced in India. The same holds for Brazil and Thailand. This ma...Drop Patent Petition, Activists Ask Novartis
...onvenor of the PEOPLE'S Health Movement. "While a generic drug for cancer costs Rs.8,000 for one month of tr...osts Rs.120,000. If Novartis gets the patent, then generic drugs will not be available in market," Sengupta told reporters. In May 2006, Novartis had filed tw...Newer Class of Antidepressants Similar in Effectiveness, Side Effects Differ
...ne (Effexor). Many of these drugs are also sold in generic form. The analysis, which examined only adult use of second-generation antidepressants, drew on 293 published studies. Of those, 187 were judged to be of good or fair quality. The analysis compared the drugs’ benefits and risks in the treatment of ...Ranbaxy in Fray to Buy Merck's Generic Drugs Unit
...tories has entered the market again to acquire the generic drugs business of German// pharmaceuticals major Merck in a deal estimated at over $5 billion. ‘We are in talks with private equity funds to finance the deal,’ Ranbaxy's chief executive Malvinder Singh said on the margins of the annual meeting of t...Thailand Goes Ahead With Licenses for Generic Drugs
...He did not elaborate on whether the drugs would be generic substitutes to products from Abbott, Sanofi-Aventi...re for so long." Thailand is planning to purchase generic versions of drugs, from companies in China or India for a reduced cost, about 10 percent of the orig......pen type fonts, Unicode compliant keyboard driver, generic fonts code and storage code converter, localized version of BharateeyaOO, English version of BharateeyaOO, Spellchecker, bilingual dictionary, transliteration tool, language tutor package, etc. All these language CDs released now, as also the ones ...