For example, Miami-based Ivax (amex: IVX - news - people) derived nearly half of its 2000 revenue from proprietary brand products.

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Miami-based Ivax (nyse: IVX - news - people) said today that it was supplying the U.S. government with 1.2 billion pills of doxacycline, an off-patent antibiotic used to treat anthrax.

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Moreover, the disease could be combated not only with Cipro, which is expensive, but also with cheaper drugs such as doxycycline, which the U.S. government bought in spades from generic-drug maker Ivax (nyse: IVX - news - people ).

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Late Friday, Miami-based Ivax (nyse: IVX - news - people ) said it had received tentative approval to sell generic versions of diabetes drug Glucophage, despite brandmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ) trying to hold things up with discussions regarding the generic drug's label.

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