It may be recalled that the drugs are produced through scientific research,
often under the auspices of the pharmaceutical industry, which is managed
as a profit-making venture, and not as an altruistic. When a pharmaceutical
company is a substance that promises to be a good medicine, sought a
legal document that gives it exclusive marketing of this product in a
given territory and for a specified time (20 years). With the protection
of intellectual property is looking to stimulate research. Upon expiry
of the time coverage of the patent expires marketing exclusivity.
Since that time other companies can manufacture and sell the drug in
question.
The result is a power that favors reducing prices, with consequent benefit
to the consumer, who can choose among different brands of the same medicine.
When the patent medicine is known as original or innovative, and other
brands are called "generic".
Typically, the drugs are known by two names: a generic, or other distinctive
mark. For a pharmaceutical company, the launch of a drug involves costs
to obtain and maintain a registered trademark, quality assurance, marketing
strategies and sales force. Thus, the development of a drug
New has a very high cost to the need to absorb those costs in the final
price.
A generic drug can be used in place of the original share with him a
bioavailability equivalent (bioequivalence), which assumes that the results
of efficacy and safety will be the same.
In any medicine, there are two factors that determine the effectiveness
and safety:
�� The active substance (which must be pure).
�� The pharmaceutical technology (set of procedures for
preparing these medicines).
The pharmaceutical technology used should always be the same for all
units that provide similar results, regardless of the lot or the date
of manufacture. Poor technology reduces or eliminates the qualities of
a good active substance.
One advantage of branded drugs is that the medical community and the
pharmaceutical
Easily identify, and can use them to determine whether they work properly.
That does not mean that it does not falsify, it is certainly more lucrative
a forgery of a drug brand that the production of generics. And sometimes
it's very inappropriate to say circulating counterfeit drugs by pharmacies
manufactured by well-known companies.
With regard to prices, it is clear that generic drugs are much cheaper,
if it finds that the prices are excessive, must express their concerns
and ask others prescribe cheaper, but not before an explanation about
the cost / benefit of new options. It is necessary to consider that health
professionals are confused about the pros and cons of generic drugs,
copies or similar. The decision about which treatment is best, according
to the economic potential, as a whole should take the doctor and the
patient.
NOTE:
The information that you will find in these articles does not try to
replace the necessary medical advice or the necessity of a medical professional
treatment for an ailment or transtorno in its health.
It always must consult to a doctor before any doubt on his health and
before beginning a new treatment with medicines, diet or program of physical
exercise.
The use of these drugs: Viagra (impotence), Cialis (impotence), Levitra (impotence), Propecia (alopecia), Xenical, acomplia, Reductil (lose
weight), Valium, Prozac Zyban (stress),
(quitting), must be approved and revised its use by physicians, not to
gamble with their lives, get in the hands of his doctor.
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