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When FDA-Approved Generics Fail: Brand Wellbutrin XL Antidepressant is Cheaper from Canada

Pharmacy Checkers

Joe and Teresa Graedon, founders of The People’s Pharmacy , not only have an admirable track record of telling health consumers how it is, but also listening to those in their readership. Many readers complained that it just wasn’t cutting it compared to the brand name version. Just switch back to the brand!”

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Amazon Pharmacy is going international. Will that lower drug prices?

Pharmacy Checkers

Amazon Pharmacy recently registered trademarks in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom but has not announced its stated plans for these registrations. For those of you who did not know that there is an Amazon Pharmacy, now you do. Amazon acquired online pharmacy PillPack in 2018 as part of its push into pharmaceutical sales.

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Amazon’s Pharmacy Should Support Importation to Offer Lower Drug Prices

Pharmacy Checkers

With drug prices in the spotlight of our national healthcare debate, one could certainly view Amazon’s entry last year into the pharmacy space as a welcome development. marketplace with competition to lower prices on patented – brand name –. They do so by using online pharmacies that sell. The price at a pharmacy.

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Leading commercial dose (non-sterile) companies in contract marketing

Pharmaceutical Technology

Contract marketing companies support pharmaceutical companies in creating, improving, and maintaining their brand, as well as reducing risk, and ensuring better product placement in the market. Identifying the top commercial dose (non-sterile) companies in contract marketing.

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Here are the Latest Sustainability Movements in the Grocery Industry

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Kroger, America’s largest grocery chain, announced last month it would be expanding an online trial with Loop , a circular economy platform focused on reusable packaging for branded products. Here’s how it works: participating brands will offer products in reusable packaging that will be merchandised in separate Loop aisles.

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Can you trust Turkey-approved Alipza? Is it the same as U.S.-Approved Livalo?

Pharmacy Checkers

A friend of mine, who has very difficult to control cholesterol, was prescribed Livalo, an FDA-approved brand of the drug pitavastatin. He went to our site to discover that brand-name Livalo ( pitavastatin ). He went to our site to discover that brand-name Livalo ( pitavastatin ). pharmacies. Let’s call him John.

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Gilead Sues Distributors Selling Counterfeit HIV Drugs

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The drugs were sold to US pharmacies by an unauthorized web of distributors who faked bottle labels and documentation, threatening patient safety. The counterfeit drugs have been circulating in local pharmacies, raising serious concern about patient safety.

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