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drug, generic

Any non-branded drug that has the identical effect of a branded product. Generic drugs are cheaper than their branded equivalents. Usually generic drugs are produced when the patent on a branded drug has expired.


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Tokyo, Japan, Apr 7, 2006 - (JCN) - NTT Data, in collaboration with Data Horizon, will begin offering Generic Drug Promotion Notice, a service for promoting the prescription of generic drugs, on April 10.
Clinton, in response to a question, said he would "do the very best I can" to try to persuade American drugmakers to grant licenses to Indian generic drug manufacturers.
Company officials have declined to comment on the share price, but American Pharmaceuticals appears to be suffering from a double whammy: stagnant revenues of its core generic drug business and a realization by the market that its proprietary drug candidate Abraxane won't be a revenue producer this year, as the company had anticipated.
 
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