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when the patent protection for a brand-name drug expires generic versions of the drug can be offered for sale if the FDA agrees
generic drugs are usually cheaper than brand-name drugs
How To Use generic drug In A Sentence
- It is a generic drug, and it's a very good prophylactic medicine.
- Aspirin and blockers are cheap generic drugs, but most thrombolytic agents are not.
- Increased competition from generic drug makers have hit sales of their patented products.
- The facts about generic drug prescriptions? Times, Sunday Times
- Now that we know that this microbe is sensitive, you have a generic drug called doxycycline, as well as generic penicillin that is quite effective against this. CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2001
- Apotex, a generic drug manufacturer, was all set up to manufacture the off-patent anhydrous generic Paxil when it discovered small fractions of it were being converted into the hemihydrate. Patent goo: self-replicating Paxil « Isegoria
- The Brazilian proposal also called for legislative protection for local production of cheaper generic drugs.
- Generic drug manufacturers in countries such as India are already ahead in the race to produce triple fixed dose antiretrovirals, because they can copy patented drugs produced by different companies and combine them.
- This ignores the fact that these generic drugs are only better value if they are safe and effective.
- She said fluconazole, a generic drug used to treat AIDS-related meningitis, which Pfizer sells under the brand name Diflucan at dlrs 27.60 per 200 mg capsule in South Africa and Guatemala, costs dlrs 0.64 per 200 mg capsule when produced in India, where it is not protected by patent. ANC Daily News Briefing
