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A new source of generic Wellbutrin available soon

Teva Pharma has a generic version, but earlier this year there were some consumer complaints, now the FDA has cleared another manufacturer to produce a generic version, Watson Pharmaceuticals. This is for the 150 mg dose. No word...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2008 11:50 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, FDA, Generic Drugs, GlaxoSmithKline, Wellbutrin, Watson Pharma

Teva Pharmaceutical raided in European Union antitrust probe

The entire focus is to see whether or not patent laws have been violated and if less expensive generics were in any way stalled from getting to the market place. It all boils down to intellectual-property rights and patient disputes. Interesting...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2008 1:26 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Pharma, Generic Drugs, Intellectual property, Lawsuits, Teva, Europe, anti trust

CVS/Caremark join the Generic Discount Club – Connect information to Personal Health Record Accounts

$9.99 for 90 days with enrollment with the Health Savings Pass CVS becomes the latest retail drug chain to jump on the bandwagon, pretty close in comparison, except you need to join the Health Savings Plan. The plan is primarily created for cash...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 1:51 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, PHR, Google Health, Prescriptions, Generic Drugs, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, CVS, Discounts, Minute Clinic

Pfizer Joins the Generic Club

I wonder if all the name brand companies will one day have nothing but generics? (grin). There’s always this interesting topic too, biosimilars. “Because biosimilars aren't exact duplicates of the original drugs, they don't violate...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 5:57 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, Pharma, Generic Drugs, Marketing, Pfizer, Biosimilars

Waging Health Battles by Fax Bots

This is a very good article here that talks about what goes on in the back side of a medical practice. When working with an HMO or PPO contract it can be a very time consuming process. Because of all the faxing and paper work that some...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2008 8:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Prescriptions, Generic Drugs, referrals, Faxing, IPA, overhead

E-Prescribing Competition and Battle Begins

As a physician, if you haven’t been marketed yet, you might expect some marketing efforts forthcoming soon. In Florida the insurance companies are offering free e-prescribing and I might guess by going through a clearinghouse that this will go directly...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2008 6:11 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Physician, healthcare, e-prescribing, HMO, e-Prescriptions, Generic Drugs, Patient, Pay for Performance

When Pay for Performance and $4.00 Generic Prescriptions Hit the Wall –Reuters

Medical Quack on Reuters. Now this is a sad state of affairs to be the prudent consumer, and yet you are potentially taking money out of your doctor's pocket by doing so when it comes to pay for performance for them, so what's up with this...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2008 2:51 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, health insurance, Physicians, Pharma, HMO, Generic Drugs, Pay for Performance, Patients

Ranbaxy Finds Rudy Giuliani is for hire..

The story keeps getting stranger by the day. A little recent history can be found here. The US is only 2-3% of their entire market so most pharmacies have already found other supplies, such as Walgreens did a few months ago when things started...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 11:12 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Pharma, FDA, Generic Drugs, Ranbaxy, Guiliani

FDA Bans Import of Meds From Ranbaxy

More can be read here as well. The issue goes back to a raid in 2006 of a US warehouse in New Jersey. If the pills were a problem, why were they allowed to continue to ship with allegations that factory test records were falsified. Well...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2008 8:08 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, FDA, Generic Drugs, Ranbaxy

$4.00 Generic Drugs and other medication information

The listings for the $4.00 Generic Retailer drug plans are linked on this site. If you are searching for a listing, you can find it here with the major retailers, Kroger, Target, Wal-Mart and more. I have provided the links to make it easy...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 10:57 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, $4.00 Prescriptions, Generic Drugs, Pharmacy

The newest generation of drugs: Who can afford them?

This brings up an interesting question, what do you go for relief or bankruptcy? Although now it is not real wide spread, but as the Biomed business continues to grow with new break throughs, how will this process continue? Is this more justification...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 4:24 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, health insurance, Generic Drugs, Biomed, Biosimilars, 4 tier

Maker of Defective Digitek Recalls All Generic Drugs Made at New Jersey Factory

Digitek, as you may or may not remember was found to contain twice the amount of active ingredient in the tablets earlier this year. The list is below as published by the FDA. The recall is being conducted for retailers to return...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 12:29 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Prescriptions, FDA, Generic Drugs, Medications, Recalls

Biogenerics Would Reduce Health Care Costs For Patients, Says Generic Pharmaceutical Association

A new possible term in the world of Biotech, Biogenerics? We currently have Pharmacogenomics working and now perhaps an interest with the Generic Drug business investing in Biotech as well or perhaps the availability of a generic without a long...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 12:16 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Biotech, FDA, Generic Drugs, Pharmaceuticals

Generics Are Cheap, but They Could Be Cheaper

Good article from the Wall Street Journal blog here about generics, however in the example quoted below, the patient’s benefit payment of 146.53 just doesn’t come close to taking advantage of a cash prescription of the same drug for $10.00 for a 90 supply...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 4:17 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, Prescriptions, Generic Drugs

Teva mulling $7.5B deal for Barr – Generic Pharmas on the move

Teva also stated it plans to sue Novartis and Momenta for patent infringement. Recently in the news was the announcement to buy Bentley Pharmaceuticals. “Teva USA products are marketed to chains, wholesalers, distributors, hospitals...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 12:33 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Generic Drugs, Pharmaceuticals

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