Pharmacy Checkers

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Years ago, they took on the Food and Drug Administration in regards to Budeprion XL distributed by Teva Pharmaceuticals, the supposed generic equivalent to the popular antidepressant, Wellbutrin XL. 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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Pharmacy Checkers

JANUARY 10, 2020

This post is mostly a story about a very well manufactured, safe and effective, foreign version of an FDA-approved drug. These drugs are normally far less expensive than the FDA-approved version sold in the U.S. He went to our site to discover that brand-name Livalo ( pitavastatin ). Is the drug safe?

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Pharmacy Checkers

OCTOBER 11, 2019

It doesn’t relate – at least not directly – to personal drug importation, but it frees the hands of drug companies to sell their own foreign versions of FDA-approved drugs at lower prices in the U.S. Its indirect relation to personal drug importation is noted at the end of this post. This is surprising.

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Pharmacy Checkers

MARCH 11, 2020

While the NPRM recognizes the importance to Americans of buying more affordable drugs outside the U.S., the FDA seems to defer actions that are not only permissible but encouraged under Section 804(J) to expand access to personally imported FDA-approved and foreign versions of FDA-approved drugs.

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Pharmacy Checkers

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The GAO’s preliminary analysis on inspections brings back into light what Katherine Eban so passionately – and dramatically – exposed in her book Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom.” When it comes to the approval of new drugs, brand and generic, the systems of the U.S.

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