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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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.
According to the survey, Americans are compensating for the economy by purchasing more store-brand or generic items (39.9%), comparison shopping more online (29.8%), and shopping for sales (50.0%).
"If you thought the Feds had given up their efforts to dissuade brand-generic patent litigation settlements, think again, " writes Elliott Wilbur, a specialty pharmaceuticals analyst at CIBC World Markets who does not cover Bristol.
Pfizer and Lilly lost big name-brand drugs to generic competitors a little over a year ago.
Generic drugs are cheaper than brand-name pharmaceuticals, and so are their stocks.
Dr Zuma wants to promote generic instead of more expensive brand-named pills whose patent has expired and which can therefore be made locally.
In one study, college seniors seated at a desktop Mac were randomly assigned to use either a generic keyboard and mouse or brand-name Apple accessories.
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The state is taking one side of a long-running debate between generic and brand drug manufacturers, and the state is at the same time, by closing down or severely restricting the data miners, handicapping the other side of that debate.
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Compared to the past few years, there will simply not be as many big-selling brand-name medicines losing patent protection, which means generic drugmakers cannot simply jumpstart growth by acquiring another generic drugmaker.
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For their part, brand-name and generic drugmakers argue the deals actually hasten lower-cost generics to market.
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While brand-based and generic TLDs are fascinating in terms of their potential to shake-up domain name giants and revolutionize online branding, only a handful of them will possess staying power.
Interpol's newly created Pharmaceutical Crime Program aims to help health agencies, police and customs bureaus in countries around the globe stem the supply of bogus brand-name and generic medicines, as well as identify and dismantle the organized crime rings distributing them.
Numerous brand-name and generic drugmakers and their respective trade groups say the settlements protect their interests but also benefit consumers by bringing inexpensive copycat medicines to market years earlier than they would arrive in any case generic drugmakers took to trial and lost.
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.
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.
Often, that settlement comes with a sizeable payment from the brand-name company to the generic drugmaker.
More risky are cases where generic drugs are not functionally equivalent to the brand-name drug.
People often buy brand-name products over their generic alternatives for fairly obvious reasons.
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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.
The court also said it would consider next term whether generic-drug makers can file certain legal counterclaims against brand-drug companies in an effort to get their cheaper versions of medicines on the market.
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.
The Obama administration wants Big Pharma to stop paying generic drug competitors to delay releasing cheaper versions of brand-name drugs.
When they tried to use the phone, they discovered that the battery had died, and were given either a brand-name replacement or a cheaper generic cell phone battery.
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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.
Mutual, however, argues that federal law preempts this type of claim, because the FDA had already approved its drug and federal law also requires a generic drug to have the same design as the brand-name medication ( here is the petition).
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Brand-name drugmakers then usually sue the generic companies, which sets up what could be years of expensive litigation.
Men who used the generic battery later rated themselves as significantly less attractive than brand-name battery users, and felt that they had a lower sense of self-worth.
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Amidst the turmoil afflicting drug firms--last week Merck cut earnings forecasts for 2009 to well below analyst forecasts--biotech copycats are appealing because they will be far more expensive than traditional generic drugs but will still be cheaper to develop than brand-new drugs.
Historically, generic firms have won about 80% of court disputes over brand-name patents, according to an analysis by Wachovia Securities.
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