August 2nd, 2008

Almost everybody has at least once faced the situation when physician recommends you definite preparations. But the preparations are not always cheap. A nice doctor proposes you to buy an analogue - the identical medicine at a less expensive price. Take a look at the package, current medicine contains the exact same active element as the prescribed one. Then why are the prices so different? Why do we have to pay more when we buy preparation of some particular famous pharmaceutical companies?

What is the reason to purchase generic pills? Let us have a look at what may be determined as generic medicine:

That can be a substitute of new innovative medicine. The developers of generic preparation do not have the license for developing preparations. There are no medicines on the market that haven't passed the needed control. The quality of the generic medications is the same and some instances is better than in the analogue preparations produced by corporation which has got the appropriate license for it. Why the producers of brand drugs set so high charges for them? Think about it - to design and present new medication is a very costly business. Let us start with the fact that well-known pharmaceutical corporations get thousands of millions dollars into invention related to creation of modern medicines. We should also take into consideration which really not any new invention is successful. There is a great deal of developments that demonstrate negative results right at the beginning. The permission for sale can be given just after all the experiments are successfully carried out. There are no preparations that can be unsafe in case of its right usage as to get the status of medicine every medicine is being experimented by several times by several different agencies. But that is not the last phase of researches as the doctors would attempt to search the best mixtures with other medicines.

There are also a lot of researches that model the reactions that can take place in case of consuming of the preparation by patients. The manufacturer has to evaluate the expenses to get back all the money during 20 years. Surely we support such development and research by purchasing original medicine. Thus the low price of generic medicine can be explained by the following:

-the most considerable expenses are performed to develop a modern formula but in generic pills the ready formula is used;

-the advertising outlays are also absent as the consumer of some brand pills understands the efficiency.

Low price, does it mean it is a low quality medication? The main purpose of creating of generic drugs is to achieve the same therapeutic action as the brand drugs have and to develop truly safe medication. The market of generic drugs is completely legal and has got some agencies which control it constantly. That is not necessary to carry out the clinic researches for generic drugs as their substances are the same as in their brand versions, so the little research that proves needed characteristics is enough. So that generic medicine has got the same cure action and minimum of side effects. Some pharmacies resort to producing of both brand and generic preparations to have some greater earnings and that is really beneficial for the customers too. Even your individual doctor may propose you to buy some less expensive generic pills instead of original preparations, so trust him! The percentage of the active substances inside the generic pills is the same as in brand pills. But the name of medicine can not be the same so that is a bit changed. The workers of the online pharmacy that sell the drugs may say that they don't differentiate the generic pills and the branded ones as there are almost no dissimilarities between them so they sell them both. Read the rest of this entry »

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