NEW YORK -- A diagnosis of hypertension is hard enough for many patients to swallow. But a lifetime of calcium channel blocker therapy can be difficult to stomach-literally.
NEW YORK -- Pharmaceutical companies will need to pay closer attention to lifecycle management for their drug products in order to compensate for a shortfall in drug development.
NEW YORK -- Patents on 200 drugs exceeding $30 billion in annual sales will expire over the next five years and potentially shift substantial script volume from brands to generics.
Extemporaneously compounded pharmaceutical dosage forms and other alternatives to commercially available drug products have become increasingly important components of therapy in recent years.
The U.S. spends more on health care than other countries. In 2003, it accounted for 15.3% of the gross domestic product, a greater percentage than Germany.
The convergence of such weighty issues as national health care costs, global health care access and obligations to a growing elderly population have placed the generic drug industry in the spotlight.
Prescription drugs are an integral part of the high-quality health care those living in the United States have come to know. More than 60 percent of Americans fill at least one prescription annually.
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