New California Appellate Decision
Makes Brand Name Drug Manufacturers Potentially Liable for Injuries Suffered by Consumers of Generic Drugs
Not exact matches
Slavitt said EpiPen has patent protection, has no Food and
Drug Administration - approved equivalents, and was approved by that agency under a «new drug application,» all of which make it a brand - name d
Drug Administration - approved equivalents, and was approved by that agency under a «new
drug application,» all of which make it a brand - name d
drug application,» all of which
make it a
brand -
name drugdrug.
A lot of people still think of the pharmaceutical industry as a free - spending behemoth that counted on a handful of
brand -
name drugs such as Lipitor, Viagra and Prozac to
make up for all the misses.
That's an even rarer feat for a generic
drug maker such as Mylan, which
makes most of its revenue not on
brand -
name drugs, but on cheaper, equivalent versions of other companies»
branded medications.
The plan is to
make the
drug — commonly known by the
brand name Vivitrol — available to inmates, people enrolled in
drug court programs and others, like those who might have been saved from an overdose.
The gel, with the
brand name Intradose CDDP, consists of collagen with added adrenaline, to
make blood vessels constrict and reduce the spread of the
drug to healthy parts of the liver.
In a rare move, the companies that
make the multiple sclerosis
drug daclizumab (
brand name Zinbryta) have voluntarily pulled the medication from the market and stopped all clinical studies after reports of eight cases of serious brain inflammation among patients in Europe.
If they succeed in pressuring the FDA into
making progesterone
made a prescription - only,
brand name drug, it will be interesting to watch how quickly they come out with a progesterone cream, patch or pill themselves.
In the county where Dee lives, the district attorney, a slimy pol
named Calvin Beckett (Michael O'Keefe), has long
made local African Americans the target of indiscriminate
drug sweeps, assuming that poor black people in the projects will plead out even if they're innocent just to get out of jail, not realizing that the guilty plea
brands them as felons and opens up a host of other troubles in getting housing, jobs, etc..
Early last year, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that a patient could sue a
brand -
name manufacturer for not warning about a
drug's risks even if the medication involved is a generic version
made by another company.
That's because the warning and usage labels are created by the
brand name manufacturer, but because
brand name manufacturers aren't the ones
making the
drugs at issue, many courts have held they can not be liable.
Ranbaxy's scientists also
made it known to Thankur that it frequently substituted ingredients in medications for less expensive, low quality ingredients in order to manage production costs, as well as manipulated testing parameters by substituting
brand -
name drugs for their own
drugs in order to accomplish better testing results.
He
made an interim order that NHS England fund the provision of the
drug, sodium oxybate (
brand name Xyrem), for a trial period of three months.