Let's imagine the situation that your physician prescribed you a definite kind of preparation you should buy. There are lots of preparations that are really costly. A nice pharmacist offers you to buy an analogue - the identical preparation at a less expensive price. Just look at the package, this preparation includes the exact identical active substance as the prescribed one. So what is the difference between them? Why the renowned pharmaceutical companies set so high prices for their production for the same matters?

What is the reason to purchase generic medicines? Let us have a look at what can be determined as generic preparation:

There is a possibility to substitute the innovative medicine with generic pills. The companies that produce generic pills don't need the license which allows to produce drugs. It can be presented at the market after the expiration of the patent or some rights. The quality of the generic medications is the identical and some instances is better than in the analogue medicines produced by company which has the proper license for it. Why is generic medicine cheaper than original medicine? Ponder over it - to design and introduce modern medicine is a very expensive business. Let us begin with the fact that well-known pharmaceutical corporations invest hundreds of millions dollars into research connected to creation of modern medicines. We ought to also take into consideration that really not any new invention is successful. There is a great deal of developments that show negative effects right at the beginning. After all the experiments about the efficiency of the medication are performed they ought to get a permission. Then there is definite amount of tests and greater discovery, the medication that is found to be safe and efficient would be registered as drug, that can be prescribed and sold at the pharmacy. But it is not the last phase of researches as the doctors will attempt to find the greatest combinations with other preparations.

There are also many experiments which model the reactions which can happen in case of taking of the preparation by patients. The patent is active during 20 years. The main profit got by the producers surely comes from the drugstores that order parts of medications. Thus the low price of generic medicine can be explained by the following:

-there is no expenses connected to inventions and research, that is enough to get the formula;

-as a lot of persons use the brand pills before their generic analogues appear the producer don't need to use money on advertising.

Does the low price always mean the bad quality? To create the successful preparation the producers of generic pills try to develop absolutely the same preparation as the original pills are. The market of generic pills is completely legal and has some agencies which control it permanently. Of course such a research cannot be considered the same as a big clinical research, however, it proves that the generic medicine effect is identical to its prototype. So this generic preparation has the same cure action and minimum of side effects. Some pharmacies resort to development of both original and generic medications to have some higher earnings and it is truly beneficial for the customers too. Such generic pills are commonly offered not just by the advertising agencies but also by expert physicians so keep it in mind! The generic medication has the same active substance at the same proportions. But the name of medicine can not be the identical so it is a bit modified. The statistics demonstrates that online pharmacy sells the generic and branded pills in equal quantities and the personnel of the drugstores do not differ the original pills from generic and sell them together. Read the rest of this entry »

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