Clean vs. Junk - does it really matter?

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  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
    And I apologize for the confusion on the treatment cost. I wrote that sentence poorly - what I meant to write is that the cost of certain pills is 75 cent per day - the Pharma specific costs are about 20$ per day total in te US and can readily be halved with the arrival of generics. (Annals of internal med. jan 2013)

    why haven't there been generics until now?
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    And I apologize for the confusion on the treatment cost. I wrote that sentence poorly - what I meant to write is that the cost of certain pills is 75 cent per day - the Pharma specific costs are about 20$ per day total in te US and can readily be halved with the arrival of generics. (Annals of internal med. jan 2013)

    why haven't there been generics until now?

    Intellectual property law.
  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
    And I apologize for the confusion on the treatment cost. I wrote that sentence poorly - what I meant to write is that the cost of certain pills is 75 cent per day - the Pharma specific costs are about 20$ per day total in te US and can readily be halved with the arrival of generics. (Annals of internal med. jan 2013)

    why haven't there been generics until now?

    Intellectual property law.

    so I assume a drug has to be on the market for a certain period of time before generics can be produced?
  • amberlykay1014
    amberlykay1014 Posts: 608 Member
    So.... I guess we're not talking about food anymore, huh? lol.. Carry on!
  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
    So.... I guess we're not talking about food anymore, huh? lol.. Carry on!

    hahaha right?
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    And I apologize for the confusion on the treatment cost. I wrote that sentence poorly - what I meant to write is that the cost of certain pills is 75 cent per day - the Pharma specific costs are about 20$ per day total in te US and can readily be halved with the arrival of generics. (Annals of internal med. jan 2013)

    why haven't there been generics until now?

    Intellectual property law.

    so I assume a drug has to be on the market for a certain period of time before generics can be produced?

    Not quite correct, patent protection is 20 years in the US from the time of application, whether you go to market or not. In reality market presence is about 5-12 years. Are you going anywhere with this line? Do you have issue with patent law?

    Edit:typo.
  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
    And I apologize for the confusion on the treatment cost. I wrote that sentence poorly - what I meant to write is that the cost of certain pills is 75 cent per day - the Pharma specific costs are about 20$ per day total in te US and can readily be halved with the arrival of generics. (Annals of internal med. jan 2013)

    why haven't there been generics until now?

    Intellectual property law.

    so I assume a drug has to be on the market for a certain period of time before generics can be produced?

    Not quite correct, patent protection is 20 years in the US from the time of application, whether you go to market or not. In reality market presence is about 5-12 years. Are you going anywhere with this line? Do you have issue with patent law?

    Edit:typo.

    nah I'm just curious since I know jack **** about it. so then why are there so many generics for every other type of med? I'm just confused as to why generics for HIV/AIDS seem to have taken longer to come out than with, say, reflux.
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    And I apologize for the confusion on the treatment cost. I wrote that sentence poorly - what I meant to write is that the cost of certain pills is 75 cent per day - the Pharma specific costs are about 20$ per day total in te US and can readily be halved with the arrival of generics. (Annals of internal med. jan 2013)

    why haven't there been generics until now?

    Intellectual property law.

    so I assume a drug has to be on the market for a certain period of time before generics can be produced?

    Not quite correct, patent protection is 20 years in the US from the time of application, whether you go to market or not. In reality market presence is about 5-12 years. Are you going anywhere with this line? Do you have issue with patent law?

    Edit:typo.

    nah I'm just curious since I know jack **** about it. so then why are there so many generics for every other type of med? I'm just confused as to why generics for HIV/AIDS seem to have taken longer to come out than with, say, reflux.

    No, there are generics for some (edit) HIV drugs now in the US. For example AZT had a patent expiry AND three different generics available since 2005.

    Edit 2: btw, the first filing for AZT generic in the US was requested within hours of the patent expiry and fast tracked by the FDA.

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