Sentences with phrase «name brand drugs»

Generic brands are typically much cheaper than name brand drugs.

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The PBMs» biggest profits no longer lie in maximizing rebates on brand - name drugs or shifting patients to higher - cost medication.

GLP - 1 drugs are used to better control blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes, and are better known by the brand names: Victoza, Byetta, and Bydureon.

For instance, a ProPublica analysis of Medicare's Part D prescription drug program found that doctors who received more industry money were also more likely to prescribe brand name, rather than cheaper generic, drugs.

For instance, a ProPublica analysis from last year found that doctors who receive a higher share of payments from drug and device makers are also more likely to prescribe pricier brand name drugs.

In general, generics are a wonderful thing — they're a lower - cost alternative to expensive, brand - name versions of drugs.

The article described how an internal investigation conducted by a company executive, Dinesh Thakur, who went on to become a whistleblower, reported appalling deceit: Ranbaxy scientists substituted cheaper, lower - quality ingredients in place of better ingredients, manipulated test parameters, and even bought brand - name drugs and used them in place of their own generics to win FDA approval.

According to the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Addiction's 2016 report, larger Mexican and Colombian criminal groups in Europe have adopted the franchise model — allowing smaller, local partners to use the group's «brand name» and providing them with drugs, contacts, and transportation — in order to navigate the criminal landscape in EuDrugs and Addiction's 2016 report, larger Mexican and Colombian criminal groups in Europe have adopted the franchise model — allowing smaller, local partners to use the group's «brand name» and providing them with drugs, contacts, and transportation — in order to navigate the criminal landscape in Eudrugs, contacts, and transportation — in order to navigate the criminal landscape in Europe.

The latter is a new form of patent challenge established in 2011 that's drawn significant ire from brand - name drug makers, who blame it for the rise of «patent trolls.»

According to a study published last year by the National Bureau of Economic Research, American consumers are spending an estimated extra $ 44 billion a year on brand - name drugs, health care items and pantry goods.

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 dDrug Administration - approved equivalents, and was approved by that agency under a «new drug application,» all of which make it a brand - name ddrug application,» all of which make it a brand - name drugdrug.

After all, patients and doctors who choose Valeant's drugs when an identical generic version is available are already volunteering to pay extra for the brand name.

Best - known by its branded name Xanax, alprazolam is a drug that's approved used to treat anxiety and panic disorders, which are very common conditions.

Contrary to Clinton's assertion that the patient «has to take a brand - name drug,» the patient has for the last 16 years had the option to take a much cheaper generic version of it.

Clinton goes on to lament the plight of a woman standing nearby: «She has to take a brand - name drug, been taking it since the early 1980s,» the candidate says, explaining that the price of the drug has multiplied nearly 82 times in the decades since to $ 14,700 for a refill today.

Allergan would also bolster Pfizer's «innovative» (i.e. brand - name) drug business, which it internally separated from its slower - growing «established» (i.e. generic and non-patented) drug division in 2014, further signaling that it may be planning to split into two different companies altogether.

The higher costs have led to rationing of dwindling supplies of the less expensive generic drugs to avoid purchasing the more expensive name brand treatments.

It sells everything from brand name and generic drugs to diagnostic tools and surgical products.

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.

The pill, called flibanserin, will be the first approved drug for that purpose and will be sold under the brand name Addyi.

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.

Pharmacies used to be able to charge 50 % or more of the price of a name - brand drug for its generic equivalent.

«With so many new specialty drugs in the pipeline and few well - known brand - name drugs going off - patent in the near future, the drug cost problem will certainly get worse before it gets better,» Mercer's U.S. health reform leader Tracy Watts said.

Retaining its name and brand, Shoppers Drug Mart will operate as a separate division of Loblaw and expand its product offerings to include Loblaw's private label and convenience food

It also asks for data on studies comparing the proposed drug to the approved brand - name drug, called the «reference drug,» and asks for data from studies conducted on the generic drug.

Express Scripts» Drug Trends Report, released Monday, revealed that the average price of brand name drugs rose 16.2 % in 2015, with over one third of brand name drugs seeing price increases over...

An Indian generic drug company on Monday urged a federal appeals court to reconsider a recent decision that revived a patent infringement case against Google LLC, saying the ruling could spur «vexatious lawsuits» by makers of brand - name pharmaceutical products.

The number of years that a brand name drug is patented for is extremely important to a drug company, which will fight tooth and nail to prevent its expiration.

Brand name drugs are protected by patents, which sustain profit margins that offset the expenditures required during the expensive R&D and drug approval process.

However, brand name recognition is critical when dealing with supplements or drugs that can have physiological effects.

When a generic drug is not bioequivalent to the name - brand version, it might still be approved for another use, but not be approved as a substitute for the name - brand version.

For a generic drug manufacturer to get the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) stamp of approval, they must prove it is pharmaceutically equal to the name - brand versdrug manufacturer to get the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) stamp of approval, they must prove it is pharmaceutically equal to the name - brand versDrug Administration's (FDA) stamp of approval, they must prove it is pharmaceutically equal to the name - brand version.

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Plans often apply the rule to brand - name drugs as a way of controlling costs when less - expensive alternatives are available.

First, he said it was based on one - sided data that mail - order companies provided to the FTC and second, it reflected a market dominated by brand name drugs.

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.

Drug maker Mylan said it will offer a generic version of the life - saving allergy treatment EpiPen for half the list price of the brand - name treatment after it became the center of a national controversy over skyrocketing drug priDrug maker Mylan said it will offer a generic version of the life - saving allergy treatment EpiPen for half the list price of the brand - name treatment after it became the center of a national controversy over skyrocketing drug pridrug prices.

Prescription ibuprofen and omeprazole — which is sold under the brand name Prilosec — have long rounded out the top - three most prescribed Medicaid drugs in Erie County.

But in advocating for the drug, sold under the brand name Truvada, officials seeking to curtail HIV / AIDS infections are going up against some surprising opponents: high - profile AIDS activists who say they have serious questions about the drug's cultural and health impacts.

As prescription drug prices — both brand - name and generic — continue to rise, a number of bipartisan proposals to combat the issue have been put on the table.

«A civil war has broken out among the most powerful players in the pharmaceutical industry — including brand - name and generic drug makers, and even your local pharmacists — with each blaming others for the rising price of medicine.»

Naloxone (brand name: Narcan ®) is a lifesaving medication that can save lives by reversing the effect of overdoses caused by heroin or other opioids, such as hydrocodone and oxycodone prescription drugs.

Officers in all but five police departments in Erie County carry naloxone, known by the brand name Narcan, a rescue nasal spray designed to revive users who overdose on opioid drugs.

Acyclovir — also known by the brand name Zovirax — is a common drug used to treat cold sores and other herpes infections.

Not only did the experimental group score better on tests of their cognition compared with the control group, but the improvement was twice as great as the one that had previously been shown for the antidementia drug donepezil (brand name Aricept).

To avoid paying # 400 a month for private prescriptions of the brand - name drug Truvada, growing numbers are buying generic versions from online pharmacies in India and Swaziland for # 40 a month, through a UK website called I Want PrEP Now.

Generic low - cost versions of the drugs are available — Walmart sells a month's supply of low - dose lovastatin for $ 4 — but many consumers choose costlier brand name options.

The drug, known under the brand name Nanotax, is a fine particle reformulation of paclitaxel, the standard treatment for ovarian cancer.

A team at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago reports that isradipine (brand name DynaCirc), a drug currently prescribed to reduce high blood pressure, may block the death of neurons in patients with advanced cases of Parkinson's and may also be able to prevent the development of the disease.

Rivaroxaban, often known by the brand name Xarelto, is an anticoagulant, aspirin is an antiplatelet drug, and both are blood thinners.