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Drug Prices Rising Faster Than Inflation

...rly Rx Watchdog Report shows that prices of the 75 generic drugs commonly used by older Americans remain unchanged. AARP survey of around 200 brand-name prescription drugs found that there was an increase in prices by 6.3 percent during the 12 months up to the second quarter of June 2006. The group found t...

Doctors Unaware If Pediatric Dosages Are Safe

... a drug -- thereby delaying the entry of competing generic drugs -- if the manufacturer conducts FDA-requested trials on its use in children. The researchers looked at how often the results of such studies were published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, often cited as among the most effective ways to ...

AIDS Sufferers Turn to British Doctor to Prolong their Survival

...any said in a statement. "We strongly feel that generic ARVs are essential in the struggle against HIV/AIDS and are committed to providing high quality, cost effective generics," said Malvinder Mohan Singh, Ranbaxy CEO and managing director. Source-IANS...

California: 'Go Ahead' For Drug Discount Initiative

...out 40% discount on branded medications and 60% on generic ones for the// low-income residents of the state. This initiative will require the prescription drug companies to enable discounts. All companies will be required to adhere to this by August 2010, failing which they may stand to be removed from Me...

Many American senior citizens fall into the “Doughnut Hole”!

... the 45 stand-alone Part D plans sold here pay for generic drugs during the doughnut hole and coverage of brand-name prescriptions is by only one, Humana Complete. Michael Marchand, a Seattle spokesman for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services”By the time most seniors reach the doughnut hole they w...

Viread To Retail In India For $1

... made on Sunday. Gilead has already entered into generic licensing deals with three Indian pharma majors - ...Arcolab - for the drug. The Indian firms will make generic versions of Viread and distribute it to 95 low-income countries around the world in a couple of mont...

Orchid gets FDA Approval for Cefotaxime Injections

...fer a full-line injectable product range in the US generic market, it said. Though a mature off-patent product, Cefotaxime has limited competition and Orchid expects a notable market share and revenue stream from it. Orchid has filed 31 ANDAs with the FDA and 15 of them have been approved so far. (Sour...

India Urged to Take Stringent Measures to Combat AIDS

...uit their own local conditions rather than rely on generic global or regional approaches, which have failed to make a difference in individual countries. In India, for example, most NGOs have focused their HIV prevention work on migrant men rather than on the one million sex workers, who are considered an ...

Activated T-Cells Could Help In The Battle Against HIV

...ily available HIV protein. Even with this somewhat generic approach, T cell immunity was enhanced. “Quite likely, it will be a combination of anti-viral drugs and some sort of immunotherapy, such as a therapeutic vaccine, that will be the most effective weapon against HIV,” noted Dr. Rinaldo. Source: Eur...

Aurobindo Gets USFDA Approval for A 3-Drug Combination Pack

...e due to missed doses. This is the first new drug generic approval in the world for a three-drug combination pack. These three drugs command over six hundred million-dollar market worldwide and the usage of the drugs is growing. With this approval, the antiretroviral product portfolio of Aurobindo increase...

Opposition against Amendments in the Intellectual Property Law

...m to restrict the government from buying the cheap generic drugs for deadly diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malari...while this can go down to Sh1,500 using a six-doze generic drug....

Drug Firms Meet Annan, Pledge on AIDS Medicines

...aboratories. The meeting was the first time that generic drug makers such as Aspen Pharmacare, Africa's largest generic drug manufacturer, joined the world's leading research-based companies at such UN discussions, Annan...

Lupin Gets USFDA Approval for Meloxicam

...ging Director Kamal K Sharma said. Meloxicam is a generic equivalent of Boehringer Ingelheim's non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), Mobic. Its sales in the US were approximately 1.1 billion dollars for the 12-month period ended December 2005 according to IMS Health, it added. This is the company's...

Ranbaxy Signs Licensing, Supply Agreement for Canadian Market

...upply agreement with Janssen-Ortho Inc (JOI) for a generic version of Risperidone compressed tablets in the C...esident and General Manager Bill Abboud said. The generic version of Risperidone, a psychotherapeutic drug is sold under Ranbaxy's label, Ran Risperidone, it ...

Ranbaxy Acquires Glaxosmithkline's Generic Unit in Spain

...ay said it has acquired GlaxoSmithKline's Mundogen generic business in Spain. // Ranbaxy's CEO and MD Malvi...lidate its presence in the rapidly growing Spanish generic market and strengthen its product portfolio. Ranbaxy acquired GSK's Mundogen unit through its Spani...

Gemzar the New Drug for Recurrent Ovarian Cancer

...ovarian cancer. The drug Gemzar also known by its generic name gemcitabine and was approved after the company provided with additional information to the FDA. According to the statistics of the American Cancer Society about 22,000 women are diagnosed with the disease and 16,000 women die each year. The prob...

Ranbaxy Launches Clarithromycin, Terbinafine Tablets in Japan

...n early entry in the progressive opening up of the generic Pharma market of Japan. We intend to rapidly introduce an array of generic therapies from our global portfolio," Ranbaxy s CEO and Managing Director Malvinder Mohan Singh said...

Orchid Gets USFDA Nod for Cephalexin

...of Orchid Chemicals' distribution alliance with US generic pharma major Par Pharmaceuticals Inc, it informed the Bombay Stock Exchange. Orchid added that its Cephalexin capsules are already marketed in the US through partnership with Par Pharmaceuticals and following this approval, the number of dosage form...

Aurobindo Gets USFDA Approval for Didanosine Chewable Tablets

... 150mg and 200mg strengths. // This is the first generic version approval for Didanosine chewable in the wo...eutical Ingredients (API) and formulation for this generic version and with this approval, the antiretroviral (ARV) product portfolio of the company increased ...

HIV/AIDS Activists Plan Demonstration Outside Indian Embassy

...ively affect India's ability to provide affordable generic drugs to millions of people around the world livin...ers of low-cost medicines, without access to these generic drugs, millions of people in developing countries will die," the organisers said in a release ahead ...

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