A report released by the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this month has confirmed the uncompetitive nature of a ploy used by patent medicine producers to maintain market domination. The report focuses on the implications for the US health system, but its conclusions also apply to South Africa, where the same methods are employed to ensure unfair market domination for patent holders at the expense of generics manufacturers.
30 Sep 2011 16:06Generic drug manufacturing company Cipla Medpro wants to expand into the rest of Africa in order to accelerate the company's growth according to a report published in
Business Day.
26 Aug 2011 12:37[Enrique Rivero] A UCLA-Harvard study has highlighted three types of confusing outcome measures. Studies about medications published in the most influential medical journals are frequently designed in a way that yields misleading or confusing results, new research suggests.
26 Aug 2011 09:19 Cape Town is set to become the first city in Africa to host the 14th Annual International Generic Pharmaceutical Alliance (IGPA) Conference, a premier event for the global generic medicines industry.
17 Aug 2011 12:46
Giving voice to a cancer that can be cured... "I am the Voice of Lymphoma" launches on World Lymphoma Awareness Day. One million people worldwide live with lymphoma[i] and nearly 1000 people are diagnosed with the disease every day[2], yet many South African's generally don't know about this type of cancer.
12 Aug 2011 08:01
Innovation and sustainability in South Africa's pharmacy sector go hand in hand with meeting key challenges facing the healthcare profession.
11 Aug 2011 14:48
The South African government has managed to save R242 million or 18% by securing discounts from suppliers of antibiotics and tuberculosis drugs over the past two years according to Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, reports
Business Day.
5 Aug 2011 09:35
Ashley Pearce, managing director of MSD, has been re-elected president of the Pharmaceutical Industry Association of South Africa (PIASA) for 2011/2012 at its recent Annual General Meeting (AGM).
1 Aug 2011 09:03
A state-owned pharmaceutical company is not the answer to providing cheaper medicines in the country, says Paul Anley, CEO of pharmaceutical company, Pharma Dynamics.
25 Jul 2011 06:52
Excluded countries should be ready to issue compulsory licences to access needed drugs
22 Jul 2011 13:16
Firms will no longer offer discounted antiretroviral drugs to middle-income countries where HIV is rife, says a report, according to the
Guardian, UK.
22 Jul 2011 09:18
Soaring health-care costs in private hospitals remained the main contributor to the high cost of private health care in the country, and the Department of Health is working on ways to address this pricing issue, it said last week.
18 Jul 2011 07:48
[Karen N. Peart] Yale School of Medicine researchers have found that a clinical trial of the epilepsy drug gabapentin may have been a "seeding trial" used by a pharmaceutical company to promote the drug and increase prescriptions, according to a report in the June issue of
Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
11 Jul 2011 13:51
A historic long-term agreement between World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies will help future athletes a great deal. Under the agreement, GSK will help WADA create early detection methods for medicines that have performance-enhancing potential in sport.
11 Jul 2011 07:47
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