Healthy Skepticism Library item: 9567

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Publication type: Journal Article

Cruickshank JM.
The cases for and against prescribing generic drugs: don't take innovative research based pharmaceutical companies for granted.
BMJ 1988 Dec 17; 297:(6663):1597-8
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=3147090

Abstract:

The safety, efficacy and source of manufacture of generic drugs available in England and the economics of the patent terms that influence marketing of brand name drugs and pharmaceutical research in Europe are described and discussed.

Keywords:
Costs and Cost Analysis Drug Industry*/economics Drug Therapy* Great Britain Humans Prescriptions, Drug Research State Medicine/economics Therapeutic Equivalency