They will have to promote biosimilars to doctors, as they do for brand-name drugs.
Generic drugs approved by FDA are of the same high quality and strength as brand-name drugs.
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The generic manufacturing and packaging sites must pass the same quality standards as those for brand-name drugs.
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The problem is that we expect generics to also be as safe and effective as the original brand-name drugs.
Next year a 50 percent decrease in all of the brand-name drugs in the doughnut hole will go into effect.
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The Obama administration wants Big Pharma to stop paying generic drug competitors to delay releasing cheaper versions of brand-name drugs.
That's because PBMs steer consumers away from generics and toward more expensive brand-name drugs, for which they're rewarded by manufacturers.
The trial goes to the heart of the escalating controversy over how much patent protection pricey brand-name drugs should get.
Mostly, these companies give financial advice on changing benefits telling them, say, to increase employee co-payments for brand-name drugs or emergency-room visits.
The magazine's analysis also found that, in general, patients report side effects at a similar rate for brand-name drugs as for generic versions.
Caremark points to a 2003 General Accounting Office report claiming that mail-order prices were 27% below retail for brand-name drugs and 53% less for generics.
Beyond that, drug company- discounts on brand-name drugs and federal subsidies and discounts for all drugs will gradually reduce the gap, eliminating it by 2020.
Teva the largest generic pharmaceutical company in the world, marketing about 400 generic medications and 50 brand-name drugs, with approximately 180 new generics awaiting FDA approval.
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Such pay-for-delay deals arise when generic companies file a challenge at the Food and Drug Administration to the patents that give brand-name drugs a 20-year monopoly.
You can search it to see whether your doctor is receiving drug company money to give speeches and talks to other doctors that help promote brand-name drugs.
But the high prices of many patent-protected drugs generate the revenues needed to underwrite the massive research and development expenses that the inventors of brand-name drugs incur.
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Yet they take up to 90% of sales away from the comparable brand-name drugs whose makers risked the time and money to bring breakthrough treatments to market.
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But the amount of money being poured by the U.S. into brand-name drugs is striking, and can be expected to drive the political debate about drug costs in America.
Big Pharma has managed to completely undermine Hatch-Waxman's intent, which was to put in place mechanisms that encouraged generic drug makers to challenge the weak patents often used to protect brand-name drugs.
The chief significance of the data mining that worries the legislators in Vermont is precisely that it can give valuable information to these detailers, helping to further entrench brand-name drugs as part of the medical scene in Vermont, keeping generics (they fear) on the margins of the markets.
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This month, the report honed in on a species of brand hijacking that clogs in-boxes daily: spam e-mails hawking name-brand discount drugs.
Pfizer and Lilly lost big name-brand drugs to generic competitors a little over a year ago.
Because generic companies tend to challenge patents of every successful drug, the FTC's position would impose onerous legal costs on brand-name drugmakers and limit their ability to fund expensive research to create new drugs, said the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, which represents brand-name drugmakers.
Generic drugs are cheaper than brand-name pharmaceuticals, and so are their stocks.
The playing field in that competition has just become a little friendlier to the makers of the brand name drugs: Pfizer, Sanofi, Bristol-Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline.
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Then it went on to argue that, under a law that said the labels on generic drugs must match those on their brand-name counterparts, Ivax shouldn't receive approval because it hadn't replicated any of the studies of the drug in children.
More risky are cases where generic drugs are not functionally equivalent to the brand-name drug.
If there's no exact generic equivalent to the brand-name drug that you are taking, there may be similar drugs in the same class that are close enough.
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