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Disruption in healthcare is coming

World of DTC Marketing

The company has hired former senior health regulators to help it navigate America’s healthcare bureaucracy. . The new initiative, Care Studio, aims at doctors rather than patients. Then there is the cost of generic drugs. bil­lion in 2020 if it had pur­chased 77 of 89 drugs from Cuban’s firm.

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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 ). That brand-name pitavastatin , sold in Turkey, is sold under the name Alipza – not Livalo. Is the drug safe?

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Our abysmal health care system

World of DTC Marketing

First, the health insurance companies are making a lot of money while burying doctors in paperwork and limiting treatment options. Patients and doctors are tired, and insurance companies are raising rates after two years of making a surplus because nobody went to the doctor during the pandemic. The result:?

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FDA-Approved Labeling: Is Enough Enough?

FDA Law Blog

Brand drugs, generic drugs, and medical devices alike have all been the target of state failure-to-warn litigation; in a recent case, OTC acetaminophen is the target. Agency officials estimated that it took at least 6 years to complete the required rulemaking process.”

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Ding Dong is the Skinny Label (Effectively) Dead?

FDA Law Blog

Typically, generic sponsors carve out a patent-protected indication or patient population, but technically, any method of use can be carved out as long as FDA determines that the product can still be used safely and effectively without the patent-protected information. The catch is, as we have learned from the GSK v.

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Hitting Pause on Criticism of the FDA, Just for Today

Pharmacy Checkers

Wikipedia has an extremely long page aptly called Criticism of the Food and Drug Administration , much of it having to do with its role with prescription drugs, and less so other sectors, such as food, tobacco and cosmetics. . It’s primarily the FDA’s role over drug safety and quality that captures my interest and admiration.”.

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Modafinil alternatives: BEST cognitive enhancers

Druggist

Modafinil (brand name Provigil) is one of the primary drugs used in the management of narcolepsy in the UK. The public’s interest in modafinil comes from the drug’s association with a class of medicines called ‘ smart drugs ‘, also called nootropics and cognitive enhancers. What is modafinil?

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