Generic VS Brand
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Среда, Фев. 10th 2010Recently the price for medical products has considerably grown, that compels patients to search for replacement to expensive medicines. Doctors advise to use generics – the medical products officially made «under recipes» original patent analogues.
The main reason of high cost of medical preparations – dearness of manufacture. The original preparation passes a full cycle of experimental and clinical researches for which huge means are spent. Its price simply should cover all costs. But thus among manufacturers there is an arrangement that each new medicine remains unique only during certain time of action of the patent. Then founders are obliged to open the preparation formula that allows other companies to adjust analogue manufacture under the low price.
But cheap – the bad does not mean. The head of the National scientifically-practical society of the first help, professor Arcady Vyortkin asserts, that the occurring opinion on smaller efficiency of generics – is not true. But thus, nevertheless it is necessary to get the medicines made by known firms. – at a choice of inexpensive analogues it is necessary to pay special attention for mark of the pharmaceutical companies as known holdings conduct accurate quality assurance and do not risk reputation, not contacting unfair dealers.
One of the major components of manufacture of the generics focused on release of really high-quality prototypes in what except the price not conceding, conformity to the international standards Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and to requirements to bioequivalence is original. Each manufacturer is obliged to prove, that its analogue on quality and influence does not differ from the original. Only after observance of all rules the preparation leaves in mass production. Such control generics pass only unitary, therefore in the future, of course, there is a risk of decrease in their quality, for example, if for manufacture less qualitative components start to be used. However such cases – a subject of criminal prosecution, therefore they are rather rare, and for the known companies and are not so characteristic.
The science is not necessary on a place: annually in the world there are tens the new medicines which efficiency, it is unconditional, above, than at preparations of the previous generation. However, if for adjustment of their manufacture while it is not enough means, release of generics – unique possibility to provide sick of accessible qualitative medicines. However, such is a state of affairs not only in Russia. In the USA where norms of the control of medical products are very strict, every second preparation – a generic.
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