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FDA TIGHTENS STANDARDS TO PROVE GENERICS CAN BE SWAPPED
Source: The News Journal
Date: 27-Oct-2011
Author: ANNA EDNEY
Generic-drug makers such as Mylan Inc. will have to meet tighter standards to prove their blood-thinners and anti-seizure treatments work as well brand-name products, U.S. regulators said.
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PFIZER WINS SILDENAFIL CITRATE PATENT CASE AGAINST TEVA
Source: Wall Street Journal
Date: 15-Aug-2011
Author: Peter Loftus
A federal judge upheld a U.S. patent for Pfizer Inc.'s (PFE) blockbuster anti-impotence pill Sildenafil citrate, preserving Pfizer's market exclusivity on the drug into 2019.
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GENERIC-DRUG MAKERS PROTECTED BY SUPREME COURT FROM SIDE-EFFECT LAWSUITS
Source: News Junky Journal
Date: 1-Aug-2011
Author: Charles Hale
A recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court protects makers of generic medicine from lawsuits by consumers who acquire side effects not adequately represented in warning labels. The ruling further hurts already-suffering individuals and has analysts predicting that a change in the laws will result.
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F.D.A. APPROVES DRUG TO TREAT HOSPITAL SCOURGE
Source: New York Times
Date: 27-May-2011
Author: Andrew Pollack
As a young infectious disease researcher in 1971, Dr. Sherwood L. Gorbach received an urgent call for help from a drug company. Some patients treated with the company's antibiotic in New Zealand had developed severe cases of diarrhea and bowel inflammation, and some had died.
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GOVERNMENT CHUCKS OUT REPLACEMENT OF BRAND DRUGS WITH GENERIC DRUGS
Source: French Tribune
Date: 16-Oct-2010
Author: Annabel Tautou
Health minister Lord Howe claims that the measures to have generic substitution are `too prescriptive'. In addition to this the GPC prescribing chief, Dr Bill Beeby said the decision was `a victory for common sense'.
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