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Growth Of Generics Slows Drug Spending
Growing use of generic drugs instead of the more expensive brand name medications they mimic kept the growth rate in US spending for prescription drugs to 2.8 percent in 2006...
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New Hopes For A Female Viagra
More than 7 years after Viagra hit the market, women are still asking: "What about us?" Now, what Viagra did for men, a new drug being studied could do for a woman's sex drive...
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Mexican Wal-Mart Launches Cheap Generic Drugs
Mexico's leading retailer Wal-Mart de Mexico, or Walmex, has launched a line of 150 cheap generic drugs...
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FDA Approved First Generic Versions Of The Sleep Aid Ambien
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Monday the first generic versions of the sleep aid Ambien — generic name zolpidem tartrate...
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Alli gets FDA’s green signal as first non-prescription diet pill
Alli, the first non-prescription diet pill, was recently given a green signal by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and can be purchase from this summer...
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Pfizer Launches Its Own Generic Drug
Mylan Laboratories Inc. said Friday it launched generic versions of Pfizer Inc.'s blockbuster Norvasc blood-pressure drug, a day after a federal court ruled a Pfizer patent was invalid...
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New Use Of Viagra Has Been Found
Many people have heard of Viagra, but they may not have heard of a new use for the little blue pill...
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Watchdog Questions Drug Prices
The NHS is wasting at least £640m a year by overpaying the major pharmaceutical companies for drugs, the Office of Fair Trading said yesterday...
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Another Reason Not To Smoke In Bed
Smoking causes erectile dysfunction by harming the health of blood vessels, Finnish researchers report...
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Ranbaxy Get FDA Approval For Generic Drug
The Food and Drug Administration has given Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc. approval to market a generic drug used to treat shingles...
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Generic Drugs Could Save NHS 'millions'
The NHS could save millions a year by prescribing generic drugs to fight cholesterol...
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Pfizer's Viagra Patent Upheld In China
A Chinese court on Thursday ordered two local drugs companies to pay compensation to Pfizer of the US for infringing the trademark of the impotence treatment Viagra...
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Breathless CBS Report Refers to Diet Drug Acomplia as 'Magic Pill,' and 'Miracle Pill'
The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric on Nov. 29th managed to promote a story on diet drug Acomplia by asking...
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Japan Generic Drug Market Seen Luring Foreign Companies
Foreign generic drug companies are looking to increase their presence in Japan as the government pushes through plans to promote use of cheaper non-patented medicines, according to a new report...
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Obesity Pill Could Treat Diabetes
A new obesity pill that helps to control blood sugar levels could treat patients with type 2 diabetes, researchers say...
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Britain Developing New Treatments For Alzheimer's Disease
British scientists have created a new chemical compound that could be developed into a drug treatment for Alzheimer's disease...
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PEOPLE’S PHARMACY: New Drug For Premature Ejaculation
Before Bob Dole went on television to talk about erectile dysfunction and Viagra, men’s sexual problems were rarely discussed in public. Impotence was a source of shame...
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MHRA Target UK Illegal Drug Websites
The Medicines Healthcare and Regulatory Authority have conducted raids on five UK-based websites thought to be selling unlicensed or prescription-only medicines...
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Generic Drugs Just as Effective, but Cost Less
When two major drug patents expire this year, there will be dramatic price decreases as generic brands of these medications are developed...
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Impotency Drugs may be Associated with Increased Risk of Optic Nerve Damage
Viagra and Cialis, the drugs used to treat impotency, may be associated with an increased risk of optic nerve damage in men...
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The Truth About Losing Weight On A Vegetarian Diet
"It does not matter what you eat. Just don't eat a lot, exercise, and your weight will not be a problem." True?...
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Fake Lipitor Lingers in Supply Chain
Pfizer has issued another recall for packs of its blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor after UK regulators found evidence of more counterfeit product in the legitimate supply chain from a batch whose withdrawal was supposed to have been completed a year ago...
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Sexual Orientation of Men Determined Before Birth
A man's sexual orientation appears to be determined in the womb, a new study suggests...
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New Advice on Blood-pressure Drug
A class of drugs called beta-blockers should no longer be used as routine to treat high blood pressure, says the NHS drugs watchdog for England and Wales...
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Vietnam legalizes Viagra
Under their modest flowing robes, two-thirds of Saudi women are too fat. They can try dieting, but you won't find many in aerobics classes or power-walking along this city's walking trails.
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Male contraceptive 'reversible'
Male hormonal contraception can be reversed within a few months, a study has found. Researchers looked at data on more than 1,500 men around the world who had taken part in tests of some form of hormonal contraception..
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Ranbaxy expands its European reach
Ranbaxy Laboratories, India's biggest drug maker, said Wednesday that it would buy Terapia of Romania for $324 million to increase sales of generic medicines in Europe...
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