Generic medicines are not substandard medicines

Generic medicines are not substandard medicines.

1 who work for the industry-funded Hudson Institute, advocate the use of patented drugs, pointing to what they say are risks associated with generic drugs. They confuse generic drugs with old, substandard, ineffective, and counterfeit drugs. Generic does not mean old. The 1996 World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreements mandate all member countries to provide 20-year patent protection for medicin...

Clinical Studies – Generic Medicines

Clinical testing is not the only way to discover drug effects on people. That is the reason controlled clinical trials are the only legal basis for central regulatory agencies in each country, such as FDA, to conclude that a new drug has clinical effectiveness for a drug or biologic. Before clinical testing begins, researchers analyze the drug’s main physical and chemical properties in the labo...

Stemming the global trade in falsified and substandard medicines.

Is this pill safe? Substandard medicines, mistaken solutions.

984 CMAJ, May 17, 2011, 183(8) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors In most developing countries you can buy prescription medicines from street vendors and in corner stores, with no need for a doctor’s note and with only the untutored vendor’s suggestions as to dosage and side effects. You might well wonder about safety. In some countries nearly half the common medicines on sale...

Substandard and counterfeit medicines: a systematic review of the literature

OBJECTIVE To explore the evidence available of poor-quality (counterfeit and substandard) medicines in the literature. DESIGN Systematic review. DATA SOURCES Databases used were EMBASE, MEDLINE, PubMed and the International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, including articles published till January 2013. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA Prevalence studies containing original data. WHO definitions (1992) used...