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

Pharmacy Checkers

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 ). pharmacies.

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State Drug Importation Bills Just Got More Personal in California

Pharmacy Checkers

Simple summary: Canada’s brand drugs are priced much lower and states want access to them. The bill states: “This bill would authorize an individual to import a prescription drug only for use by that individual or a member of that individual’s immediate family from a foreign pharmacy if specified requirements are met.

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Through the Looking Glass: Is FDA really the “Gold Standard” in Drug Safety?

Pharmacy Checkers

Opponents of Americans buying less expensive drugs from overseas pharmacies (i.e. When it comes to the approval of new drugs, brand and generic, the systems of the U.S. The two agencies almost always agree on which drugs should be approved, although there is some dialog of a potential growing divergence.

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Pharma By The Numbers: A Retrospective Look at the Industry and 20 Years of Xtalks History

XTalks

To celebrate this milestone, we’re taking a look back over the last 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry by highlighting some of the most talked-about mergers, blockbuster drugs, trends in FDA approvals and what’s next. Just last year, the FDA approved a one-time gene therapy treatment for hemophilia B priced at $3.5

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FDA Drafts Guidance to Allow Lower-Cost Foreign Drug Imports From Any Country

Pharmacy Checkers

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. The discussion below applies to brand-name (not generic) drugs. After all, they are either “FDA-approved” or not.

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Section 804’s Conflicting Standards for Personal vs. Wholesale Drug Importation and Why it Matters

Pharmacy Checkers

The FDA states: “Contributing to public frustration on this issue is the disparity between prices that Americans pay for brand name medications as compared with other developed countries…For instance, in 2017, Canada’s Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) found that patented medicines (i.e., 15 and 16). 21 and 22).”.

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Exforge antitrust settlement caps Novartis’ year of legal disputes

Pharmaceutical Technology

In 2020, the Federal Trade Commission issued a report regarding settlements reached between brand and generic manufacturers in FY 2017 and noted that “for the first time since [FY] 2004, no settlement agreement in [FY] 2017 contains a no-[authorized generic] AG commitment.”. Gilenya is an oral medication for multiple sclerosis.

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