Sentences with phrase «of brand name drugs»

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...

In 2010, a physician prescribed Finasteride, the generic version of the brand name drug Proscar, to treat Rafferty's enlarged prostate.

Generic Drug is a cheaper duplicate of a brand name drug with the same active ingredients, producing the same effect, available when the brand name drug is no longer patent protected.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

And generic versions of drugs have been known to act differently from name - brand products (see accompanying story.)

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.

The vast majority, 81, were generic versions of brand - name drugs on which Cetero scientists had often run critical tests to determine whether the copies did, in fact, act the same in the body as the originals.

The decline was due to increased use of generic drugs as some popular brand - name drugs lost patent protection, increases in cost - sharing requirements, and lower spending on new medicines.

The blood pressure drug losartan, which is sold under the brand name Cozaar, may help prevent a fatal complication of Marfan syndrome.

The chemotherapy drug bortezomib (marketed by Millennium Pharmaceuticals under the brand name Velcade) takes advantage of this reliance and targets the proteasome's function.

A team of researchers found that D.C. - based health care providers who got gifts — including cash, meals and ownership interests — from pharmaceutical companies prescribed more drugs per patient, wrote more expensive prescriptions and were more likely to recommend brand names.

As it turns out, the drug, capecitabine (brand name, Xeloda) had given him a moderate case of something known as hand — foot syndrome (aka chemotherapy - induced acral erythema), which can cause swelling, pain and peeling on the palms and soles of the feet — and apparently, loss of fingerprints.

Even when using pioneer (or brand - name) drugs, doctors monitor patients on these types of medications until they find the precise dose that works with each person's physiology.

In fact, a 2009 FDA study showed that of 2,070 orally administered generic drug products approved by the agency between 1996 to 2007, generics differ in bioequivalency from brand names, on average, by about 3.5 percent; less than two percent varied by more than 10 percent.

Prices among 19 brand - name prescription dermatologic drugs increased rapidly between 2009 and 2015, with prices for topical antineoplastic drugs to prevent the spread of cancer cells increasing an average of 1,240 percent, according to an article published online by JAMA Dermatology.

A total of 19 name - brand drugs with data available from all four surveys were selected for final analysis and grouped by treatment indication: acne and rosacea; psoriasis; topical corticosteroids; antiinfectives; and antineoplastics.

* Eliminate «pay - for - delay» strategies in which a pharmaceutical company with a brand name drug shares profits on that drug with a generic drug manufacturer for the remainder of a patent period, effectively eliminating a patent challenge and competition.

Doctors commonly treat hyperparathyroidism using a class of prescription drugs called bisphosphonates, including alendronate (marketed under the brand name Fosamax) and ibandronate (Boniva), which are supposed to strengthen bones.

The FDA - approved drug fluoxetine, also known by the brand name Prozac, restored levels of a key neurotransmitter and improved behavior in mice with an autism - like disorder, a new study in the June 21 issue of Science Advances reports.

But the growth of e-commerce has flooded the market with a wide range of both brand name and generic drugs.

(That's different from manufacturing a small - molecule generic, which will have the exact chemical structure of the brand - name drug.)

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.

A new study in the Journal of Lipid Research reports that defective DHCR7 carriers may face undesired effects from the commonly prescribed antipsychotic drug aripiprazole (marketed as Abilify) and the antidepressant trazodone (marketed as Oleptro and other brand names).