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 Generic drug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Generic medicines must contain the same active ingredient at the same strength as the "innovator" brand, be bioequivalent, and are required to meet the same pharmacopoeial requirements for the preparation.
Generics can be legally produced for drugs where: 1) the patent has expired, 2) the generic company certifies the brand companies patents are either invalid, unenforceable or will not be infringed, 3) for drugs which have never held patents, or 4) in countries where a patent(s) is/are not in force.
Generic drug manufacturers were required to prove that their formulation exhibits bioequivalence to the brand-name product.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Generic_drug   (739 words)

  
 Generic brand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Generic brand products are often as good as the branded product, though not necessarily, and many are made on the same production line.
Generic brands of consumer products are distinguished by the absence of a well-known brand name.
In the specific case of drugs, generic drugs are made chemically indistinguishable from the brand name products, to satisfy regulations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Generic_brand   (311 words)

  
 Generic Vs Brand
The major difference between a brand name drug and a generic is the research required for the innovator (brand name) company to discover the new biochemical substances that eventually become new drugs.
It simply means that if you are started on that generic, you should not switch to the brand name or vice versa especially if that drug has a narrow therapeutic range (the concentration of the drug in the body has to be monitored carefully, such as warfarin, digoxin, or anticonvulsants).
As previously stated, generic drugs contain the same active ingredient as the brand name, but fillers, flavorings, or coatings may differ.
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 Prescription Medications - Generic vs. Brand Name
Generic drugs are required to deliver the same amount of active ingredient, in the same amount of time as brand name drugs.
Generic drugs may sometimes be shaped differently from brand names, such as a generic tablet versus a brand name capsule.
Generic drugs are usually much less expensive than their brand name counterparts.
www.crossborderpharmacy.com /Canadian-Generics-vs-Brand-Name.html   (450 words)

  
 Are generic and brand name drugs the same?
Generic drugs are as safe and effective as brand-name products, and subject to the same quality guidelines set by the Food and Drug Administration to ensure their therapeutic equivalence.
Generic drugs must contain an identical amount of active ingredients as their brand-name counterparts, and in the identical dosage.
Are generic and brand name drugs the same?
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 Hispanic Magazine.com - September 2003 - La Buena Vida - Health
A generic drug is the identical or bioequivalent to a brand name drug in dosage form, safety, strength, route of administration, quality, performance characteristics, and intended use, according to the federal Food and Drug Administration.
Generic drug manufacturers must pass the same FDA guidelines, tests, and good manufacturing practices as brand name pharmaceutical companies.
portion of the cost of brand name drugs covers the high cost of research and development, and generic manufacturers do not have to duplicate that cost.
www.hispaniconline.com /magazine/2003/sep/LaBuenaVida/health.html   (653 words)

  
 Adult Health Advisor 2005.2: Generic and Brand-Name Drugs
In some cases, the generic drugs are also sold by the same company that makes the brand-name drugs.
The drug may then be sold with other brand names or as a generic product with the chemical name.
Generic drugs usually cost less than brand names.
www.med.umich.edu /1libr/aha/aha_genbrand_sha.htm   (533 words)

  
 Is the Brand Name Drug Really Better than the Generic?
Generic drugs that have been tested and approved by the FDA to be therapeutically equivalent to brand name drugs are published in a guide that is updated monthly and is found in most pharmacies.
Generally, generic drugs are less expensive than brand name drugs.
Of particular controversy is one well-publicized story in which a brand name manufacturer paid a university researcher to prove the brand drug was superior to the generic.
www.pamf.org /health/toyourhealth/drug.html   (1530 words)

  
 Capstonepaper
(http://cpmu.org/Generics.html) The generic brands are required to have the same active ingredients in their product as well as similar dosage and strength of the pill compared to the name brand.
Recently however, the generic brands have been expanding the shape and coatings their products are available in.
The generic brands are typically less expensive, saving the consumer forty percent to sixty percent.
www.louisville.edu /~a0spur01/capstonepaper.html   (992 words)

  
 Generic Drug Competition - 10/11/00
In these cases, the generic drug manufacturer certifies in its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) that the branded product's patent(s) is invalid or will not be infringed by the generic drug for which the ANDA applicant seeks approval.
The proposed study would examine whether brand-name and generic drug manufacturers have entered into agreements, or have used other strategies, to delay competition from generic versions of patent-protected drugs.
"The goal of this study would be to continue the Commission's look at the business relationships between brand-name and generic drug manufacturers to ensure that the process of bringing new low-cost generic alternatives to the marketplace -- and into the hands of consumers -- is not impeded in ways that are anticompetitive."
www.ftc.gov /opa/2000/10/genericdrug.htm   (845 words)

  
 Generic Drugs: Saving Money at the Pharmacy
Your pharmacist can compare and evaluate generic and brand-name drugs and may be able to consult with your doctor to provide the right medication at the best possible price.
A generic drug is called by its chemcical name; a manufacturer assigns a brand name.
Standard practice and most state laws require that a generic drug be generically equivalent to its brand-name counterpart.
www.ftc.gov /bcp/conline/pubs/health/generic.htm   (439 words)

  
 MAP 97011
Participation by a single company or brand name in a trade show may be considered a generic activity provided MAP funds are used to pay for only generic promotional materials and all other companies seeking to promote the U.S. agricultural commodity had an equal opportunity to participate in the promotion.
A nonprofit organization may conduct a generic in-store promotion in conjunction with a single company or brand name provided MAP funds are used to pay for only generic promotional materials and all other companies seeking to promote the U.S. agricultural commodity had an equal opportunity to participate in the promotion.
Any brand identification that is added or incorporated into the generic material must be at the expense of the company.
www.fas.usda.gov /mos/programs/MAP97011.html   (295 words)

  
 Generic & Brand Drugs, Pharmaceutical & Health Care Products. - Home Page
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 ARE GENERIC DRUGS AS EFFECTIVE AS BRAND NAME? NOT ALWAYS! - ROAD BACK FOUNDATION
The purpose of this article is not to condemn generic drugs for many are as effective as the brand name and even come from the same manufacturing company, but are repackaged and sold by another company as their own generic brand.
For insurance companies who will not cover brand name drugs when a generic is available, a blood test to determine concentration may be necessary for those using low dose antibiotics to provide data to require payment for the brand name drug.
This means that the effectiveness may be 20% greater or 20% less effective than the brand name so that two generic drugs could contain as much as a 40% difference from each other.
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 Brand vs. Generic: Brand 1, Generic, 0 - BrainTalk Communities
If the generic is pegged at the minimum 80% of the specified brand name dose as has been suggested, then I'm really sensitive at the 80% threshold.
It wouldn't surprise me that some generics are inferior to the real deal when such vast amounts of money stand to be made by the entire pharmaceutical industry which includes the drugstore retailers.
I have experience with their generic adderal, and it was far superior to other generics.
brain.hastypastry.net /forums/showthread.php?t=24834   (1286 words)

  
 WorstPills.org -
Generics are not required to replicate the extensive clinical trials that have already been used in the development of the original, brand-name drug.
Since generics use the same active ingredients and are shown to work the same way in the body, they have the same risk-benefit profile as their brand-name counterparts.
It found four generic and brand-name drugs—Synthroid and the three competing levothyroxines—to be bioequivalent by current FDA standards and interchangeable without loss of therapeutic efficacy in the majority of patients for treatment of hypothyroidism (low thyroid).
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 Brand vs Generic Meds - The Crazy Meds Low Down
There are some forms of generic clonazepam that are not as good as the brand, and the brand is just superior over all.
If those are the meds for you, and for many people they are the right meds, ask for them by brand first, and not generic.
All brand names of the drugs listed in this site are the trademarks of the companies listed after them in the pages about the drugs, even though those companies may or may not have been acquired by other companies who may or may not be listed in this site by the time you read this.
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 Online Generic Viagra is Available - Lowest Prices Guaranteed!
Because Generic Viagra causes a physiological change it is able to treat most ED sufferers regardless of how long they have had difficulty achieving or maintaining an erection.
Generic Viagra users can typically expect results beginning about 30 minutes after taking the treament and lasting for up to 4 hours.
Please understand that Generic Viagra is not a hormone or aphrodisiac, it works only when a man is sexually stimulated.
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 PharmaCare - Fertility Clinical Resource Infertility Medication: Brand vs. Generic1-00
When all of the standards of equivalence between the generic and the brand name drug are met, the FDA then approves the proposed generic drug for marketing in the United States.
To further understand the equivalence of brand and generic medications, it is important to get an understanding of the process by which medications are approved.
Why are there several different brand name medications corresponding to each generic name?
www.cvsprocare.com /content/fertility/clinical/BrandvsGeneric.html   (839 words)

  
 Drugs Index
So Brand X in US correlating with brand Y in UK merely indicate that they are the same generic drug, without suggesting that the pharmacokinetics, etc. are the same.
Names from other countries are generally not given if the same Brand names appear in the first three columns.
Major Brand names in Australia, USA and UK are given, plus some from other countries.
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 Generic Viagra Zenegra - Buy Viagra Generic
Generic drugs are cheaper because research, sales and advertising costs are much lower than brand name counterparts.
Generic Viagra is sold under many brand names.
Generic sildenafil citrate helps a man with erectile dysfunction get an erection only when he is sexually excited.
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 Generic vs Brand
Generics use the same active ingredients, are shown to act in the same way in the body, and have the same risk-benefit profile as a brand name drug.
The chart below lists the 10 most expensive brand name drugs that have a generic equivalent available.
But health care consumers must educate themselves about appropriate, less expensive alternatives to brand name medications, including generic drugs.
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 Generic Viagra - Generic Cialis — Buy Cheap Generic Drugs Online
Unlike Generic Drugs, a large part of the costs incurred by original manufacturers of brand name drugs are for research and development and advertising.
Generic version of Viagra and Cialis contains the same active ingredients that work the same way in the body as the branded versions.
Generic Viagra and Generic Cialis are cost-effective substitutes for brand names Viagra and Cialis.
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 Viagra Generic Brand
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 Generic Brand Drugs
When you use the Mail Service receive the brand drug instead of a generic substitute.
market and sell the generic version of the brand drug under the active approved generics for brand drugs unless the doctor has specifically
uses a list of generic and brand-name drugs— called a formulary.
consumer.us.com /smart/pharmacy/generic-brand-drugs.html   (83 words)

  
 Message
IF the bottle is labelled with the generic name, I can always look up Procardia XL and see that it's a brand of "nifedipine ER".
In a 20 minute new visit, it's certainly a risk that the wrong assumption will be made at some point as to the actual identity of a drug labelled only with obscure generic brand name(s).
Generic brand name dangers, Alden Zwerling MD FAAFP, Jun 22, 2005 at 21:31
www.ismp.org /forum/b.asp?m=2907&f=messagesReload   (270 words)

  
 Plaquenil Brand vs. Generic
The generic is about > half the price ($40-45/month) > of the Plaquenil brand $85-90/month).
have been thinking about changing to generic brand.
The generic is about half the price ($40-45/month)
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 The Conversation Cafe Forums - Spin-off....Do you buy Generic? Used? Brand new only?
I have found that most generic foods just are not the same quality as the brand names.
We are pretty picky about what we eat, but some generic brands I find are very good, and I will try a generic brand.
Groceries: generic or name brand or a little of both?
www.theconversationcafe.com /forums/showthread.php?t=8702   (2224 words)

  
 Generic Brand Reviews
I've never dyed my hair, but I've used a hair dryer every day of my life since I was old enough to hold one, and the Equate brand makes my hair feel just as silky and smooth as did the Pantene.
Once a week I'll be choosing a new generic product, trying it out, and putting the review here.
Have you ever wanted to try the generic version of a popular, expensive product, but don't want to waste the money if it isn't a quality product???
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