It turns out that the Food and Drug Administration can't identify one chemical in the drug, and so it can't approve a generic version.
"Right now we really can't comment on the generic component of this, " says Bayer director of communications Ellena Friedman.
Perhaps it started with her name Chris Kapostasy. (When she moved to the network she changed it to Jansing, her married name, though she has since divorced.) It wasn't one of those generic TV-anchor names.
Initially, a court argued that Apotex's generic didn't run afoul of Glaxo's patents because some of the clinical trials done to test the drug essentially put it in the public domain.
AstraZeneca challenged Andrx's version of Prilosec by saying that the generic drug wasn't really equivalent.
The goal of a generic drugmaker wouldn't be to actually overturn a big drug firm's patents.
Bayer wants to protect its patent on the anthrax-fighting antibiotic, but that doesn't necessarily mean it couldn't grant an emergency exemption to a generic drug maker.
In 2009, he is trying to do this again with a bill that calls for the same standards to apply to another category of generic drugs that wasn't included in the original Hatch-Waxman law.
For its human trials due to begin this summer Alexza has chosen a generic migraine drug that doesn't have the cardiovascular risks associated with Maxalt or Imitrex.
The lingering impact of Ramsey's photos of those abandoned subterranean spaces is how they revealed a still-salvageable vestige of New York, something that hasn't yet been torn down and turned into the generic and the banal.
In the past week, the Canadian government threatened to buy generic forms of Cipro from other drug companies, but it, too, reached an agreement to rely on Bayer to supply the anti-anthrax drug Cipro and only use generic drugs if the company can't deliver.
For instance, you can use it with Android's generic email app, but you can't on the one made specifically for Gmail.
The Department of Education has also posted generic lessons online, but they don't help students who can't read words, only pictures, Ms. Schwartz-Nyitray said.
It won't be easy: Mail-order services, new generic products and shrinking reimbursements from Medicare and Medicaid have hampered retail-pharmacy sales of prescription drugs, which account for 63% of Rite Aid's top line.
So those who are experiencing the pain and trauma of the black experience in this country don't want their rallying cry to be watered down with a generic feel-good catchphrase.
As the age of generic Zocor approaches, his job growing Lipitor sales doesn't look as if it will get any easier.
We just tried it out and it is indeed faster, which is nice, but we noticed that avatars don't load in right away while you scroll -- they're generic until you stop.
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Provigil could conceivably face cheap generic competition within a few years if a key patent doesn't hold up.
Surely, some equitable deal could have been worked out between Bayer, the generic companies and the U.S. government that wouldn't have hurt Cipro sales for the year-and-a-half or so the drug has left.
But the failed trial, at the very least, serves as a reminder of guidelines that say doctors shouldn't use Vytorin without first trying out higher doses of statins--starting with generic Zocor, and then moving to higher doses of Pfizer 's Lipitor and AstraZeneca 's Crestor.
But the failed trial, at the very least, serves as a reminder of guidelines that say doctors shouldn't use Vytorin without first trying out higher doses of statins--starting with generic Zocor, and then moving to higher doses of Pfizer 's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) Lipitor and AstraZeneca 's (nyse: AZN - news - people ) Crestor.
And Jannuzzo acted as pit bull in notifying 12 record labels that the company objects to artists using the word "Glock" in rap songs such as Dr. Dre's "Bitches Ain't Shit, " mainly out of fear that Glock's name will become a generic term for handgun.
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.
Many doctors who don't agree with critics who say Zetia and Vytorin, a combo pill of Zetia and the generic Zocor, are a last resort do still think that the use of these drugs got ahead of the science backing them.
Cephalon (nasdaq: CEPH - news - people ) has a patent protecting the way Provigil is made until 2014, but four generic companies are arguing either that the patent is invalid or that it doesn't apply to their versions.
But Bristol-Myers doesn't have a wellspring of new drugs coming right away, and two of its top drugs could soon face generic competition.
We'd surmise that it wouldn't, but you can rest assured that it'll perform at a high level for far longer than most generic competitors.
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