$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 patients but anyone can benefit so if you have a...
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on 10-31-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, PHR, Google Health, Prescriptions, Generic Drugs, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, CVS, Discounts, Minute Clinic
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 the original drug's patent , enabling legal distribution...
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on 10-16-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, Pharma, Generic Drugs, Marketing, Pfizer, Biosimilars
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 I guess this now gives us the answer while the...
I was reading another blog, and realized Comedy Central now has their own site with videos and ran across this classic from the Today Show. With all the recent discussions on how big Pharma spends money and recent marketing techniques, here it is in all it's glory. BD http://www.thedailyshow...
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 for biosimilars, the Biomed side of generic...
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on 08-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, health insurance, Generic Drugs, Biomed, Biosimilars, 4 tier
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 their products currently. It sounds like...
No time wasted here, patent expired yesterday, orders shipping today. Also J and J will release their own generic as well, (can’t beat them – join them) so 2 generic versions ready to go. Teva has an exclusive for a few months before others can join in to manufacture and sell. BD ...