Leading Clinics

Archive: Therapy

How to Decrease the Expenses on Preparations

August 2nd, 2008, 5:42 am @ Therapy

Let's imagine the situation that your physician recommended you a definite type of preparation you ought to purchase. Quite expensive you think to yourself. A good doctor offers you to get an analogue - the identical preparation at a less expensive price. A lot of drugs have their absolute analogues which have got the same components and that is mentioned on the pack. Then why are the prices are various? Why do we need to pay more when we buy preparation of some particular famous pharmaceutical companies?

What is generic preparation? We can depict such type of preparations as generic with some statements:

There is an opportunity to substitute the innovative medicine with generic pills. That is developed with no license of the corporation producing innovative medicine. It may be presented at the market after the expiration of the patent or other rights. All the matters that are included into the generic pills are just the same as in their licensed variants but generic pills are examined by independent experts and other agency. Why is generic medicine cheaper than original preparation? Think about it - to develop and introduce modern medicine is a quite costly business. Of course if the corporation invests billions of dollars in the designing and producing of some new preparations they have to get more money to compensate it. We ought to also take into account which actually not every new invention is successful. By the way that is not so hard to determine the successfulness of the project from the first days of its presentation. After all the researches about the effectiveness of the drug are performed they ought to get a permission. There are no medicines that can be unsafe in case of its proper use as to get the status of drug any medicine is being experimented by several times by several different agencies. Nevertheless, it does not mean that the producer can halt the research.

There are also a lot of researches which model the reactions which can take place in case of consuming of the preparation by patients. After they get a patent they may sell it for 20 years. So these years are utilized by manufacturer to get back money they have spent, and some profit. The main profit got by the producers of course comes from the pharmacies which order lots of medications. Thus the low cost of generic medicine can be explained by the next facts:

-there is no expenses related to inventions and research, it is enough to copy the formula;

-the advertising outlays are also absent as the client of some brand drugs realizes the effectiveness.

Is the quality of generic pills is worse than brand drugs? The basic aim of developing of generic drugs is to reach the same therapeutic action as the original pills have and to develop truly safe medication. Be attentive as there are some unlawful organizations that attempt to sell their production. That is not necessary to carry out the clinic researches for generic pills as their substances are the same as in their original versions, so the little research that proves required characteristics is enough. The side effects as the treatment actions are actually the same in both of drugs variants. Some pharmacies resort to development of both brand and generic medications to have some higher incomings and it is truly beneficial for the customers too. Even your personal physician may advise you to buy some less expensive generic drugs instead of brand medicines, so trust him! Every physician can say that generic drugs is simply the absolute copy of brand analogues. The single difference - that is produced under a different name. According to the quotes of the staff of online pharmacy, they don't differentiate generic medicine and the original, and they don't realize what the is offering of both in the assortment of their pharmacy. Read more »