India to curb export of cheap copycat generic drugs
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India enters the new year committed to effectively curbing its role as prime world exporter of cheap generic drugs, whose availability is seen as vital to helping the world's poorest sufferers.
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GENEVA - India&#39;s Hetero Drugs is withdrawing six of its generic versions of antiretroviral drugs from the World Health Organization&#39;s list of approved HIV medicines, saying it is not certain they are biologically the same as the patented drugs.
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Importing cheaper prescription drugs should not come at the expense of safety, said a U.S. government report issued on Tuesday that highlighted the problems of ensuring the medicines are equivalent to those in the United States.
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Pfizer tries to stop patients from switching to generic Zocor.
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Wal-Mart is expected to announce that it will test a program to sell generic prescription drugs at sharply reduced prices, according to a published report Thursday.
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IBM said on Friday it has developed technology to help drug distributors, manufacturers and retailers prevent counterfeit drugs from making their way into the market.
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Thailand's top pharmaceutical group slammed the government's decision to allow generic versions of AIDS and heart drugs, saying it damaged the nation's image in the global business community.
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The companies decide to play nice over generic versions of two of Pfizer's drugs.
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Counterfeit medicines, some of them sold over the Internet, are swamping unregulated markets in developing nations with sometimes fatal results, the U.N. drug control watchdog said on Thursday.
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The European Union is warned to take steps to combat the growing problem of counterfeit drugs.
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Another Indian pharmaceutical company, Hetero Drugs, has withdrawn its generic anti-AIDS drugs from special World Health Organisation certification amid doubts about tests designed to prove their effectiveness, the UN health agency said.
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Thailand may break more patents of Western drugmakers by adding copycat versions of four cancer medicines into the nation&#39;s generic drug programs, a health official said Monday.
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Following an inspection by the World Health Organization (WHO), Indian generic manufacturer Hetero Drugs is withdrawing six antiretrovirals from the WHO prequalification list in order to review data on their bioequivalence.
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Medicine bottles in the USA are going to have miniscule radio antennas (mini masts) as manufacturers try to combat growing counterfeiting of drugs.
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A task force led by the U.S. Surgeon General is still drafting its report on drug importation, but one conclusion is already clear: Savvy shoppers can find cheaper prescription drugs in American pharmacies.
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The government said Tuesday that intercepted drugs purportedly sent from Canada were made and shipped elsewhere, had been subject to Canadian recall and had cheaper generic counterparts in the United States.
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India needs to tighten control on the  sale of prescription drugs from chemist shops to stem the  spread of HIV, the United Nations anti-AIDS agency said on  Monday.