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Our abysmal health care system

World of DTC Marketing

Once limited to a few new treatments, it’s now being applied widely, even to generic drugs and established regimens.?The Andrew Witty, its CEO, had a 2021 pay package worth $18.4 Generic drugs may also be cheaper with a coupon than your drug insurance. Prior authorization is out of control. The result:?

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Warnings for Japanese pharmaceutical market may lead to more lenient price controls

Pharmaceutical Technology

Meanwhile, another recently released MHLW report confirmed that 696 essential drugs from 94 companies were identified as unprofitable due to increasing costs of manufacturing and packaging and the depreciation of the Japanese yen.

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Warnings for Japanese pharmaceutical market may lead to more lenient price controls

Pharmaceutical Technology

Meanwhile, another recently released MHLW report confirmed that 696 essential drugs from 94 companies were identified as unprofitable due to increasing costs of manufacturing and packaging and the depreciation of the Japanese yen.

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Even Drugs Manufactured in America are not “Made in the USA”

Pharmacy Checkers

The Januvia package reads “Formulated in UK.” The Januvia package also states “Sitagliptin (active ingred.) the drug company that makes Janumet and Januvia) gets its sitagliptin from Italy to make Januvia, and it probably uses that same API to make Janumet. But Metformin is an off patent, widely-manufactured generic drug.

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A PSA on PSGs: PSG Meetings Are Now Available

FDA Law Blog

Koblitz — FDA uses its Product Specific Guidance documents (“PSGs”) to provide recommendations as to the bioequivalence testing necessary for approval of a generic drug. Indeed, PSGs help facilitate generic competition, and to date, OGD has published more than 2,000 PSGs.

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

Pharmacy Checkers

Importing medicines from countries that do not have our same strong standards could taint our medicine supply.”. The second sentence is deceptively broad: as in, yes, importing medicines from countries that do not have our “same” standards could taint our medicine supply. Not necessarily, but it could. If the U.S.

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Drug labeling authority, UDI program reviewed by Harvard-based researchers

The Pharma Data

The authority to change drug labels outside of considerations for new safety information “could encourage third parties, such as academic investigators, insurance companies, and cooperative trial groups, to initiate such changes,” they wrote. . Posted 17 May 2021 | By Jeff Craven .

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