Generics

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• The Generic HIV/AIDS Market

  
  TGP Credit Cards — Authority: 139
  Generic drugs are chemical equivalents of name-brand drugs whose patent have expired. generic medications are exactly the same as their branded counterparts in dosage form, safety, strength, route of administration, quality, performance characteristics and intended use. The noticeable difference between the two is the ...
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• FTC Eyes Supply Dispute Between Drugmakers

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 596
  The Federal Trade Commission is concerned that some brand-name drugmakers are declining to supply some bulk ingredients to their generic rivals which, of course, want to use materials to make copies of more expensive meds, The Wall Street Journal writes. Meanwhile, GlaxoSmithKline cites a federal drug-safety ...
  2 days ago

• What Pfizer, KKR and Goldman (Reportedly) Want: Generics!

  
  WSJ.com: Health Blog — Authority: 687
  Bids are reportedly coming in for Ratiopharm, a German generics manufacturer thats for sale.
  3 days ago

• Drugmakers strike back at generics

  
  Steve Anthony: True Canadian Pharmacy — Authority: 106
  When the blockbuster heart pill Norvasc lost its patent protection earlier this year, generic manufacturers couldn’t wait to get into the lucrative market for Canada’s third top-selling prescription drug, predicting they could save patients $180-million a year with their cheaper copies. But the Saskatchewan ...
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• Genome sequence. Cassava. “… cassava is used for industrial starch production, and has potential as a biofuel source, there are commercial applications of these breeding tools.”

  
  Biotech — Authority: 129
  Steve Rounsley, Associate Professor in the School of Plant Sciences from the University of Arizona has said:“With the first cassava genome in hand, we can cheaply and quickly sequence other varieties that will give us thousands of little signposts – mile markers if you like – that will help us identify key genes ...
  4 days ago

• GEO Monitor IPO Newsflash: Glenmark Generics Ltd

  
  ResearchOracle.com — Authority: 155
  Glenmark Generics appoints managers for its IPO… If you wish to view the entire report, visit us at GEO Monitor or contact us This report is provided as part of IIR Group Ltd.’s GEO (Global Equity Offerings) Monitor service, which tracks global IPO activity. Our GEO Monitor is the only comprehensive ...
  6 days ago

• Bukidnon jobs alert – The Generics Pharmacy needs registered pharmacists

  
  Bukidnon Online — Authority: 127
  BUKIDNON JOBS – Bukidnon Online just received a comment from a reader. This is pertaining our The Generics Pharmacy article. It’s all good, don’t worry Our reader, Ruby, even has good news for all of you job seekers!The Generics Pharmacy, which sells affordable generic medicine and makes the same available to ...
  1 week ago

• Schering-Plough Laxative Lawsuit ‘Jumped The Gun’

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 596
  That’s what the a federal appeals court judge ruled this week in affirming dismissal of a lawsuit accusing several generic drugmakers were accused of improperly labeling their laxatives as “prescription only” products. The 7th Circuit judge, Richard Posner, concluded that Schering-Plough should have waited until ...
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• Healthcare amendment would delay access to “generic” versions of life-saving biologics

  
  The eDrugSearch Blog — Authority: 109
  Healthcare reform isn’t just about the public option and paying for doctor’s visits — it’s also about equal, affordable access to life-saving medications for all Americans. That’s why many Big Pharma watchdogs are so disappointed with a recent amendment slipped into healthcare legislation that proposes ...
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• High medication costs make baby Jesus cry

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 736
  Why do my medications cost so much ?Are there ways to save money on my pills? Are generic drugs equal to the brand name? Is a generic option available for the drug Im taking? Or maybe my medications are causing my health problems? Can I just take the expired pills in that old bottle?
  2 weeks ago

• Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Amended Bill Banning Pay-For-Delay Settlements

  
  Patent Baristas — Authority: 489
  The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted to pass a compromise version of the bill by members Herb Kohl (D-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) banning pay-for-delay settlements that keep generic drugs off the market. The “ Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act (S.396) ” is an attempt to reduce the anti-consumer ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Changing Face of Pharmaceutical Sales: AstraZeneca Offers Its Entire Sales Force a Buyout Option

  
  Bio Job Blog — Authority: 469
  The Pharmalot Blog reported today that AstraZeneca offered all of it sales representatives—numbering 5,000-6,000—a buyout option. However, AstraZeneca prefers to avoid the term buyout and instead instructed its reps to ’self identify’ whether or not they want a package to leave the company. According to the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Enzyme. Suberin. Biofuels. Harsh environments. “… an important milestone on the road toward economically efficient biofuel production.”

  
  Biotech — Authority: 129
  Biologist Chang-Jun Liu from U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory has said: “We sought to understand the synthesis of the ‘wall-bound’ phenolic component of different biopolymers, including this important suberin polymer, by identifying the enzymes responsible for their construction ...
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• Mylan Labs To Pay $121M Over Medicaid Rebates

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 596
  The agreement resolves a long-standing civil dispute with the U.S. Department of Justice over Medicaid rebates on sales from 2000 through 2004. In an interesting coda, Mylan plans to seek recovery of a big part of the settlement from any drugmakers that received overpayments, although there was no admission of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Should Generic Industry Payoffs be Outlawed?

  
  Healthcare Economist — Authority: 496
  GoozNews reports that “the  Senate Judiciary Committee …passed legislation prohibiting brand name drug manufacturers from paying off generic manufacturers in patent disputes.  They get the money in exchange for not bringing the cheaper drug to market.” Is this a wise move for Congress? The main question one ...
  3 weeks ago

• Generic bill moves in the Senate

  
  Prescription Access Litigation (PAL) Project — Authority: 92
  On October 15th, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted out S. 369 ( here is the bill ), the ban on pay-for-delay settlements between brand-name pharmaceutical manufacturers and generic-drug companies.  The purpose and result of these settlements is that the generic drugs come to market later.  This means that ...
  4 weeks ago

• Senate Panel Vote: Limit Pay-To-Delay Generic Deals

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 596
  The Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill making it harder for drug makers to strike those ‘pay-for-delay’ deals in which a brand-name pharma company shovels some money to a generic maker to hold off introducing a lower-priced copycat medication. The bill, which reports say passed 12-7 along party lines, would ...
  4 weeks ago

• Pfizer, A Branded Generic & A Patent Fight

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 596
  File this under ‘if at first you don’t suceed, try, try, again.’ And Pfizers appears to have succeeded. Its Norvasc blood pressure pill lost patent protection earlier this year and, of course, generic makers drooled over the chance to sell their version of Canada’s third best-selling drug. But the ...
  4 weeks ago

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