Healthy Skepticism Library item: 7649

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Publication type: Journal Article

New obstacles slow efforts to speed generics to market
Drug Benefit Trends 2003; 15:(2):16-17

Abstract:

A brief discussion on the delay of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) new rules to streamline the introduction of generic drugs, the unveiling of a managed Medicare payment plan by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, the revising of Pfizer’s advertising of azithromycin (Zithromax), the ruling by a federal judge that the Bush administration lacks the statutory authority to develop and implement its proposed Medicare drug discount card program and the development of a Maine program that will provide lower cost drugs to 114,000 patients, is presented.