Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Yet another clever way to boost Big Pharma profits
Always pondering ways to make the drug market more lucrative for large pharmaceutical corporations, the FDA is now floating the idea of charging application fees to manufacturers of generic drugs. This, in turn, would make it more expensive for generic drugs to receive approval, hiking their price and limiting their price advantage vs. brand-name drugs. The end result? Greater brand-name drug sales (which, of course, is what the FDA is ultimately after). |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 It's a generic portion for a generic customer until you make it your own with portion control. Think about it—a generic portion. This same meal would be set before you if you were a 5-foot 3-inch female or 6-foot 6-inch NBA player—regardless of your weight or activity level.
Portion control is the key to personalizing the meals you eat, both at home and when dining out.
Portion control has nothing to do with deprivation. Portion control is an opportunity. Consider it your chance to customize the foods you choose to fit your size or the size you want to be. |
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| The next time your doctor writes you a prescription, be sure to ask the right questions to save money, advises Diane Nitzki-George, RPh, a clinical pharmacist in Evanston, Illinois, and the author of generic Alternatives to Prescription Drugs (Basic Health)...
•Is a generic available? On average, generics, which have the same active ingredients as brand-name drugs, cost 52% less.
•Is there a cheaper drug in the same class?
The newest—and most expensive—drugs sometimes represent a significant advance over older medications in the same chemical class. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The agency, of course, is spinning this whole proposal as a huge benefit to consumers, saying it would help them approve generic drugs more quickly, thereby saving U.S. employers hundreds of millions of dollars in lower drug costs. Of course, those same corporations could save BILLIONS if they invested in nutrition, prevention and natural health instead of drugs and surgery, but that's another story.
Clearly what we need is genuine FDA reform, not making the FDA even more addicted to industry money. |
| This, in turn, would make it more expensive for generic drugs to receive approval, hiking their price and limiting their price advantage vs. brand-name drugs. The end result? Greater brand-name drug sales (which, of course, is what the FDA is ultimately after).
The whole problem with corruption and fraud at the FDA today is largely due to the fact that the agency is largely funded by brand-name drug makers through drug application fees. Thus, drug companies are the FDA's "customers. |
Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
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 Immediately after the generic name is a pronunciation guide. Oddly enough, there are different ways to pronounce some of these generic names, so don't be surprised if your physician or pharmacist has a slighdy different pronunciation than we give.
Just below the generic name is a listing of some of the brand names used in the United States and Canada. Brand names, also called trade names, are the popular and usually-easier-to-pronounce names most layfolk know. There may be only one brand name for a drug, or there may be many. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| A law was passed titled the generic Animal Drug and Patent Term Restoration Act. This extended to veterinary products the same benefits approved in 1994 for human drugs. This allowed generic versions of both prescription and non-prescriptions drugs that had been approved before 1962 to compete in the marketplace without a new NDA.
It would seem that with the passage of the 1998 act, insulins previously in the marketplace could be produced and sold without even so much as a batch test. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 The most commonly used estrogens are the oral forms, and they come as estradiol (by product name and generic), conjugated animal-source estrogens (Premarin), a mixture of esterified vegetable estrogens (Enjuvia, Cen-estin, Menest), esterified estrogens with methyl testosterone (Estratest and Syntest), and various generic forms. Estrogens also come in combination products containing an estrogen plus a progestogen and in transdermal patches, gels, and creams, as well as in a vaginal ring that provides transdermal systemic estrogen levels (Femring). |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Sarafem? and generic versions of PROZAC.
WHO SHOULD NOT TAKE PROZAC? You should not take PROZAC if you:
?are allergic to PROZAC, or any of its components, or have had a bad reaction to PROZAC or generic fluoxetine previously.
?are taking a type of antidepressant medicine known as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI), such as Nardil?(phenelzine sulfate) or Parnate?(tranylcypromine sulfate). Using an MAOI together with many prescription medicines, including PROZAC, can cause serious or even life-threatening reactions. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| The most commonly used estrogens are the oral forms, and they come as estradiol (by product name and generic), conjugated animal-source estrogens (Premarin), a mixture of esterified vegetable estrogens (Enjuvia, Cen-estin, Menest), esterified estrogens with methyl testosterone (Estratest and Syntest), and various generic forms. Estrogens also come in combination products containing an estrogen plus a progestogen and in transdermal patches, gels, and creams, as well as in a vaginal ring that provides transdermal systemic estrogen levels (Femring). |
Charles Barber
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 Before Prozac, the brand names of drugs were generally some simplified version of their scientific and generic names. For example: haloperidol (generic name) became Haldol (brand name). Prozac, the scientific name of which is fluoxetine, was the first drug whose public name was specifically created to evoke saleable images and ideas: in this case, the "pro" connoting positivity, and the "zac" the reassurance and exactitude of science. |
Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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 If you are taking a generic version of your drug it will often just be called by its generic name. But if not, you can usually find the generic name on your pill bottle or the container it came in. If the generic
GENERIC AND BRAND NAMES OF C( (Not all brands names are listed. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Is a generic available? On average, generics, which have the same active ingredients as brand-name drugs, cost 52% less.
•Is there a cheaper drug in the same class?
The newest—and most expensive—drugs sometimes represent a significant advance over older medications in the same chemical class. But many people do just as well on older, less expensive medications.
Doctors may prescribe expensive drugs because they are often more convenient for patients to take. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 The three types of macrovascular disease are cerebrovascular disease, coronary disease, and peripheral vascular disease, metformin: The generic name for an oral antidiabetic medication (trade name Glucophage) that decreases the amount of glucose manufactured by the liver and helps make the body's cells more sensitive to insulin. mg/dL: Milligrams per deciliter. This is the term used to describe how much glucose is present in a specific amount of blood, microvascular disease: A condition in which the walls of the smallest blood vessels become abnormally thick and weak. |
Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
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| Just below the generic name is a listing of some of the brand names used in the United States and Canada. Brand names, also called trade names, are the popular and usually-easier-to-pronounce names most layfolk know. There may be only one brand name for a drug, or there may be many. Our listings are not exhaustive, so we may not have listed the brand name of the drug you're taking. Don't be alarmed if you don't see your brand name; just look for the generic name that matches the one for your medicine. |
| Oddly enough, there are different ways to pronounce some of these generic names, so don't be surprised if your physician or pharmacist has a slighdy different pronunciation than we give.
Just below the generic name is a listing of some of the brand names used in the United States and Canada. Brand names, also called trade names, are the popular and usually-easier-to-pronounce names most layfolk know. There may be only one brand name for a drug, or there may be many. Our listings are not exhaustive, so we may not have listed the brand name of the drug you're taking. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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| Think about it—a generic portion. This same meal would be set before you if you were a 5-foot 3-inch female or 6-foot 6-inch NBA player—regardless of your weight or activity level.
Portion control is the key to personalizing the meals you eat, both at home and when dining out.
Portion control has nothing to do with deprivation. Portion control is an opportunity. Consider it your chance to customize the foods you choose to fit your size or the size you want to be.
Most people who need to lose weight live with some mixed feelings about food—feelings that often include some degree of guilt. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Almost half the products in Skin Deep contain the generic term "fragrance." Even "unscented" products may have masking fragrances — chemicals used to cover up the odor of other chemicals.
Some hidden hazards that may be lurking within synthetic-chemical fragrances include:
• Allergens. Fragrances are considered to be among the top five known allergens, and are known to both cause asthma and trigger asthma attacks.14
• Phthalates. Product tests conducted by Consumer Reports in January 2007 found the phthalates DEP and DEHP in all eight of eight perfumes tested. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 As we reported in a previous NewsTarget article on Paxil:
Researchers from Cardiff University in Britain and the Cochrane Centre examined data on Paxil -- or its generic form, paroxetine -- from GlaxoSmithKline, legal cases and emails from nearly 1,400 patients who responded to a British TV program on antidepressants. The researchers found that 60 out of 9,219 people taking Paxil -- 0.65 percent -- experienced a "hostility event," compared to 20 out of 6,455 patients taking placebo, or 0.31 percent. |
Robert Whitaker
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 In 1984, Smith Kline had given him a grant to conduct a test comparing Thorazine to a generic knockoff—in such studies, the drug company hopes to prove that the generic is not really equivalent—and the next year, at the American Psychiatric Association's annual convendon, he reported the results that Smith Kline wanted to hear. Schizophrenics who had been switched from Thorazine to generic chlorpromazine had become agitated and hostile, he told his peers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Also, Sherrod Brown discussed his amendment to prevent Big Pharma from gaming a citizen's petition system that Big Pharma uses to delay generic drug competition (some aspect of this may make it into the legislation). Durbin offered an amendment for meaningful changes to FDA advisory panels. This is a really good amendment and is unlikely to go anywhere.
Thus, Kennedy and Enzi are stonewalling all meaningful change to protect Big Pharma. This bill looks like it's going to pass. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Ambien will soon be available as a generic and provides the best overall effect of drugs in this group, so I prescribe it most often. Since the remaining drugs in this class are quite expensive and can also be habit-forming, my next choice is Rozerem, the melatonin-like drug I mentioned earlier, because it is the only one of the sleep-inducing drugs that is not habit-forming. If these are ineffective, I will try drugs in the benzodiazepine or Valium class, such as temazepam (Restoril) or clonazepam (Klonopin). |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 You might spray the bush with a generic garden spray you've had sitting around on a garage shelf and hope for the best; it may not be a product that's specifically meant to conquer the exact insect that's destroying your bush, but it will probably help nonetheless because it defends pretty well against garden pests in general.
The other kind of immune response is the adaptive immune response, which takes place long past the moment when a foreign invader first infiltrates the body. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 REPPED:
Drug/Herb Interactions Guide
This section catalogs potentially adverse drug/herb combinations by both the generic name of the drug and the scientific name of the herb. Under each bold-face drug entry you '11 find a list of the herbs with which the agent may interact. Likewise, under a bold-face herb entry you'll find a list of potentially interactive drugs. A description of the interaction's effect follows each item in the list. Further information on each drug can be found in Physicians' Desk Reference®. Information on each herb appears in the Herbal Monographs section of this book. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Same drug, same dose, but priced three and a half times higher than generic Prozac."50 Of the 78 drugs approved by the FDA in 2002, only 17 contained new ingredients, and only seven were classified by the FDA as improvements over existing drugs.
All that capital, all that effort: all for seven really new drugs! Surely this is further evidence of the lack of innovation in the big drug companies.
There is a related problem. The pharmaceutical industry has compromised the scientific process that supposedly underlies their existence. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The document, which cited clinical trials of 14,198 patients on fluoxetine, the generic name for Prozac, also stated that 2.3 percent of users suffered psychotic depression while on the drug. This was more than double the next-highest rate for patients using another antidepressant. In addition, the paper noted that 1.6 percent of patients reported incidents of hostility, more than double the number that patients on any of four other commonly used antidepressants reported. Finally, the trials reviewed in the document said that 0. |
| Some generic drugs were marked up as much as 3,000 percent or more.
CBS's famous Sixty Minutes national TV show (aired 1st April 2007), revealed the biggest ever health scandal, which so far cost the American public nearly $1.5 trillion. The scam is orchestrated by the pharmaceutical companies, which through powerful lobbying in the American Congress, helped pass a prescription drug bill that prevents Medicare from buying prescription drugs at a discounted rate for their members. Other institutions, such as the U.S. |
| For example, if you want to buy a brand name drug that costs $100 for 100 pills, but your pharmacists offers you a generic version of the same drug for $80, you may think you are getting a great deal. This is not the case. The pharmacy gets the 100 pills for $10 and sells them to you for $80! That's why the pharmacy business is doing so well, as evidenced by the abundance of pharmacies everywhere.
5. Surgery is Rarely Necessary
Several years ago a committee of the American Congress investigating procedures of surgery in the United States came to the conclusion that 2. |
Anne Harrington
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 Most of these techniques were generic, but a few were quite specific, as evidenced by this charming "Prayer for the Dyspeptic," published in the 1887 Mind-Cure Mentor.
Holy Reality. We BELIEVE in Thee that Thou are EVERYWHERE present. We really believe it. Blessed reality we do not pretend to belief. WE BELIEVE. Believing that Thou are everywhere present, we believe that Thou are in the patient's stomach. |
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