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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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Disruption in healthcare is coming

World of DTC Marketing

The new initiative, Care Studio, aims at doctors rather than patients. Then there is the cost of generic drugs. A recent study in the An­nals of In­ter­nal Med­i­cine took a look at al­most 90 gener­ic drugs that the Medicare Part D pro­gram pays for, find­ing that Medicare could’ve saved $3.6

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Katie Porter attacks pharma

World of DTC Marketing

So where to start… Congresswoman Porter may want to look at the percentage of generic drugs available virus branded (89%). PBM’s and insurers required that patients with high cholesterol first use generic versions of Lipitor and Crestor to save money. In pharma R&D returns have declined to 1.8 percent from 2018.

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Exforge antitrust settlement caps Novartis’ year of legal disputes

Pharmaceutical Technology

The agreement outlined that Par would keep its generic equivalent off the market for as many as two years, delaying the generic launch till September 30, 2014. These actions allegedly led to the extension of Novartis’ patents. Please check your email to download the Report.

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Cerelle vs Cerazette: Are they really the same?

Druggist

Can I still request a doctor to prescribe Cerazette? Do generic, and branded drugs produce exactly the same effect? Before December 2015, Cerazette was protected by a patent, which gave producers of this pill exclusive rights of supply of desogestrel in the UK and other markets. Cerelle vs Cerazette: common side effects

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First Generic Version of AZOPT® (brinzolamide ophthalmic suspension) 1%, used to treat high pressure inside the eye

The Pharma Data

This first-to-market generic version of AZOPT ® (brinzolamide ophthalmic suspension) 1% in the U.S. provides patients with another important treatment option,” said Christine Baeder, SVP, Chief Operating Officer US Generics, Teva USA. Currently, one in ten generic prescriptions dispensed in the U.S.

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Teva shares slide as it faces illegal kickback charges from US government

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.” This is the latest in a string of legal troubles for the Israel-based pharma in the US, where it already faces lawsuits that it improperly marketed an opioid painkiller, and colluded with other pharma companies to fix the price of generic drugs.