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Breaking Down the Cost of Generic Drug Production: Understanding the Factors Influencing Affordability

Drug Patent Watch

As we navigate the complex world of healthcare, it's easy to overlook the intricacies of generic drug production. We often assume that generic medications are cheaper because they're, well, generic. Generic drug production involves replicating a brand-name medication's active ingredient, formulation, and dosage.

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The Role of Scientific Expertise in Generic Drug Development

Drug Patent Watch

Generic drug development is a complex process that involves not only scientific and medical expertise but also adherence to strict legal and ethical standards. Scientific expertise plays a crucial role in ensuring that generic drugs are held to the same standards of quality, safety, and efficacy as their brand-name counterparts.

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Do generics producers have what it takes to tackle complex and specialty drugs?

Pharmaceutical Technology

Specialty generics is a term used to refer to generic versions of drugs that are often expensive, complex, or “high touch”—requiring significant involvement of service to manage. Specialty drugs are most used to treat different cancers, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis. But there are some exceptions.

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Eli Lilly Partners with Amazon Pharmacy for Home Delivery of Drugs

XTalks

LillyDirect Pharmacy Solutions, Eli Lilly’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) drugs website, is teaming up with Amazon Pharmacy to deliver select medications to people’s homes. Physicians can send prescriptions for their patients either to LillyDirect Pharmacy Solutions or Amazon Pharmacy.

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Leading retail pharmacies in pharma

Pharmaceutical Technology

Increasing diagnosis of chronic diseases is expected to lead to fast growth in retail pharmacies. The rising incidence of long-standing diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer requires prolonged medication and, thus, drives the growth and need for retail pharmacies in the market. Speciality care.

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How PBMs and Discount Cards Impact Generic Drug Prices (video)

Drug Channels

See The GoodRx-Kroger Blowup: Spread Pricing, Pharmacy Margins, and the Future of Discount Cards. In the video below, I discuss how generic drug pricing and the rise of patient-paid, discount card prescriptions pose a risk to pharmacy benefit plans and the PBM business. d/b/a Drug Channels Institute.

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Disruption in healthcare is coming

World of DTC Marketing

A new feature—a sensor that monitors changes in the heart rate for irregularities that can lead to strokes and heart failure—has just been approved by America’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Then there is the cost of generic drugs. bil­lion in 2020 if it had pur­chased 77 of 89 drugs from Cuban’s firm.

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