Experts estimate that the average rebate for a brand-name drug in 2011 reaches 40%.
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More risky are cases where generic drugs are not functionally equivalent to the brand-name drug.
Taking advantage of advances in technology, some of the new products may even be better than the original, 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.
But a Consumer Reports analysis found that the FDA was as likely to warn about manufacturing issues at a brand-name drug factory as a generic one, Dr. Santa says.
Such lawsuits are strengthened if the brand-name drug company files a new patent covering, say, the colour of the pill bottle just before the main patent is about to expire.
Mutual and the Obama administration want that protection extended to the design of the drug, since the generic is an exact copy of the brand-name drug that has already been approved by the federal government.
According to the 2010 RBC Capital Markets study, when trial victories, settlements between drugmakers and dropped cases are combined, generic companies were able to bring their product to market before the brand-name drug's patent expired in 76 percent of the 371 drug patent suits decided from 2000 through 2009.
In particular, Pfizer is dealing with pressure to come up with more successful new drugs as its big name cholesterol drug Lipitor loses its patent protection in 2011.
Pfizer ( PFE - news - people ) is dealing with pressure to come up with more successful new drugs as its big name cholesterol drug Lipitor loses its patent protection in 2011.
So filling in that -- what's commonly known as -- ironically, in health care -- the doughnut hole, about -- that up to 50 percent of the name brand -- the price for that name brand drug would be paid for, and I think that provides a hefty discount that will bear appreciable benefits for seniors all over the country.
"You don't want the word 'drug, ' you want the name of the drug, " says Berkan.
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The family statement also appeals for donations in Eva Rausing's name to a drug awareness and treatment fund, or to the UK charity Action on Addiction, which she supported.
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Television advertisements can now name a prescription drug and its use, provided they describe the chief risks and refer consumers to further information, including a toll-free number and website.
Two men being held in other cases gave them the name of an unemployed drug addict named David Ranta, who was eventually tracked down by Scarcella.
Ten years later Rapp, the ceo of Wet Planet Beverages in Rochester, New York, was in the news again for rolling out XTC, an energy drink for club-hoppers (it's loaded with the caffeine-rich guarana berry) that shares the name of a recreational drug.
The only losers were patients who have had to keep paying much higher prices for their name-brand-only drug.
Left unanswered in the FDA's latest guidelines is whether the bio-knockoffs can use the same name as the original brand drug.
When it spots a term that falls into that subset, like "Amoxicillin, " Hakia can substitute the medicine's name for the word "drug" in the result.
For the first time in years, the bags handed out to doctors here at the ACC meeting are not branded with any drug or company name.
"They're unsure whether we're cops or another drug gang, " said Jorge, the state policeman, who did not want his full name used for fear of retaliation by the drug lords.
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Adams left Merck in 1987 to make a name for himself at the German drug firm Boehringer Ingelheim.
Doctors say the drug, whose generic name is Propofol, can lead to cardiac arrest when the heart abruptly stops.
That's good news for Andrx, which hopes to sell its delayed-release lovastatin as a new drug under the brand name Altocor.
The drug Mylotarg, generic name Gemtuzumab ozogamicin, was FDA-approved for post-remission treatment of AML in patients over age 60 several years ago.
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In separate experiments, the two flavonoids were added to lung-cell cultures before, during and after infection with H5N1, and tested on H5N1-infected cells treated with zanamivir (brand name Relenza), an antiviral drug prescribed to flu patients.
One Silk Road buyer and small-time drug dealer with the name Joey Terrifying writes that he used the site to buy a gram of Molly, a form of ecstasy, with the intention of quickly selling it to his own customers.
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Ironically in the end, the man who fought ascending mountainous roads with his legs, and the man who fought cancer with all his heart and soul, decided not to wage further battle in a fight to clear his name against accusations of Performance Enhancing Drug (PED) use dating back to 1998.
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