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Search results for "generic drugs" ...
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Bad Bargain
This article identifies several people who suffered consequences after switching from brand name drugs to generic ones. Furthermore, this article identifies loopholes that allow these generic drugs to reach the market. These generics, many of us believe are the same as the brand name ones, are actual substandard and un-equivalent.
Tags: Prescriptions; Drugs; Generic; Food and Drug Administration (FDA); Insurance companies; Brand Name; Doctors; Pharmacy; Pharmaceuticals
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Divine Intervention: U.S. AIDS Policy
"The Center’s year-long investigation revealed how rigid rules and funding earmarks of President's Bush $15-billion initiative to fight HIV/AIDS abroad- the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief- hinder effective HIV programming and frustrate countries struggling with the pandemic."
Tags: AIDS; HIV; South Africa; PEPFAR; Ethiopia; Haiti; condoms; education; generic drugs; brand name drugs
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Generic Drugs: Shop Around For the Best Deals
Consumer Reports examines the high cost of generic drugs, with the understanding that "some generic drugs cost pharmacies just pennies per pill, but they can turn around and sell them to people who lack insurance for as much as they wish." Consumer Reports asked 132 pharmacies around the U.S. their prices for five common prescription generic drugs. Costco is the least expensive pharmacy, charging $52 for a 30-day supply. Online distributor teldrug.com was the most expensive, charging $228 for the same generic drugs. The story gives consumers this information to aid in their search for the best deal on generic drugs.
Tags: generic drugs; price gouging; pharmacies; Costco; teldrug.com
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Expensive Pill to Swallow
"Retail prices of widely used generic drugs are marked up hundreds of per cent over the wholesale cost to pharmacies. Also, the price of these drugs can vary by hundreds of dollars a year to users depending on where they shop."
Tags: Prescription; over the counter; drugs; pharmacy;
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The dangers of on-line drugs
The authors investigated the safety of ordering prescription drugs on-line. They found that though it was cheaper the buyers weren't always getting what they paid for.
Tags: on-line; prescription drugs; internet; generic brand
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Dirty tricks in the land of generic drugs
Barron's reports on phony "grassroots" lobbying schemes and other tricks used by the generic drugs industry to push for favorable regulation. The story focuses particularly on manufacturing and approval problems at Andrx Pharmaceuticals.
Tags: prescription drugs; medicine; business; investors; FDA; SEC
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Generic Drugs
KWCH-TV checked the prices of generic drugs in different pharmacies. There are many prices when it comes to generic drugs: retail price, Average Wholesale Price, the price insurance companies pay, and the price pharmacies pay wholesalers. They discovered that the Average Wholesale Price is inflated. A pharmacy can buy 100 of the generic Prozac for $4, but they usually sell it for anywhere between $12 and $226.
Tags: drug prices; Average Wholesale Price; insurance companies; wholesalers; pharmacies; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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How Companies Stall Generics and Keep Themselves Healthy
The New York Times examined court records and other public documents in Washington and other states and interviewed regulators and drug company executives with a particular focus on Hytrin. The review showed how efforts to extend a profitable drub's monopoly, as much as the pursuit of scientific discoveries, drive decisions in one of the world's most lucrative, and secretive, industries.
Tags: generics; pharmaceuticals; drug; generic drugs
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Generic Drugs: The Stalling Game
Consumer Reports investigates tactics used by brand-name drug manufacturers to delay the entry of generic drugs to the marketplace.
Tags: generic drugs; medicine; cost; Consumer Reports; business; insider information; FTC; trade; pharmaceuticals
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Who Needs a Prescription
Los Angeles Times Magazine looks at the trend of prescription drugs going over the counter, and finds that this poses risks to patients. For example, chronic pains sufferers are prone to gastric disorders because they often take the popular analgesic ibuprofen, or medications that have it as an active ingredient, the story reveals. The reporter examines cases of people who sued pharmaceutical giants like Johnson and Johnson because its product Tylenol turned out to cause catastrophic liver failures. A major finding is that drug manufacturers often fail to warn customers that some medications interfere with the efficacy of other drugs, if taken at the same time. The article describes FDA's drug testing and auditing procedures.
Tags: Food and Drug Administration (FDA); consumer affairs; doctors; pharmaceutical benefit managers (PBM); generic drugs; managed care; health; ulcer; Zantac; Prozac; labeling