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For and Against of Generic Preparations

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Imagine yourself buying some medication at the pharmacy, which was prescribed by your physician. But the preparations are not always inexpensive. But that is truly possible nowadays to find the preparations of the equal influence but pay less for them. Just look at the package, this medicine contains the exact same active element as the prescribed one. Why the rates vary a lot then? Why persons must pay more to get the pills of the same structure and the same substances comprised in it?

What is the meaning of term generic? We can depict such type of medicines as generic with some statements:

Generic medicines may be utilized instead of innovative ones. That is developed with no license of the corporation developing newest medicine. The production which is sold on the market is truly experimented and checked by lots of commissions. All the matters that are included into the generic pills are just the same as in their original analogues but generic pills are tested by independent experts and other firm. Why is generic medicine cheaper than brand preparation? Ponder over it - to design and present new medicine is a very costly business. Surely if the company invests milliard of dollars in the designing and producing of some new medications they have to get more money to recompense it. That is not always possible to increase the volumes of sales of new medicine. There is a big number of developments that demonstrate negative effects right at the beginning. The permission for sale may be given only after all the researches are successfully completed. There are no medicines that may be unsafe in case of its proper usage as to get the status of medicine any medicine is being researched by several times by several different services. However, it does not mean that the producer can halt the discovery.

The experiments are usually being carried out with combining of current preparations with some others. The patent is active during 20 years. Some preparations get the profit to the producers being sold in pharmacies truly rapidly. There are some main principles which can explain so low price of generic preparations:

-the most significant expenses are intended to invent a modern formula but in generic pills the ready formula is utilized;

-there is no reason to invest money into advertising - the consumer already knows how that medicine works.

Is the quality of generic pills is worse than brand drugs? One of the most important aims of the generic medicine manufacturers is to reach the same therapeutic effect as the brand preparations have. The market of generic pills is absolutely legal and has some agencies which control it constantly. It is not important to perform the clinic tests for generic drugs as their substances are the same as in their original analogues, so the small discovery which proves required features is enough. So that generic preparation has the same cure action and minimum of side effects. That is a common world practice for famous pharmaceutical companies to produce not only their original preparations but generics as well, which are of the equal quality. Such generic drugs are usually offered not just by the advertising companies but also by expert physicians so keep it in mind! The generic preparation has the identical active element at the same percentage. But the name of medicine can not be the same so it is a bit modified. The officers of the online pharmacy that sell the drugs can say that they don't differentiate the generic pills and the branded ones as there are almost no differences between them so they sell them both. (more…)

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