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Patient advocacy groups and activists have criticized Gilead for the drug's high price and lack of access in lower income countries, considering the disease affects an estimated 39.9 million ...
List of substances [12] Kontroll av narkotikaprekursorer [permanent dead link ] (up to date list of laws) New Zealand Search engine: Philippines Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002: United Kingdom: Medicines Act 1968; Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 [13] Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001; Drugs Act 2005; Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 [14 ...
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) reported that 323 "active medication shortages" were reported in January–March 2024. As a result of drug scarcity, many healthcare systems were forced to either ration out essential drugs, triage patients based on the severity of their condition and their need for the drug, or both.
In most cases, generic products become available after the patent protections afforded to the drug's original developer expire. Once generic drugs enter the market, competition often leads to substantially lower prices for both the original brand-name product and its generic equivalents. In most countries, patents give 20 years of protection.
The drug brought in annual sales of $1.66 billion as of April 2024, according to Teva. Teva's generic launch comes days after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration tentatively approved London ...
The Government Delegation for the National Plan on Drugs (Spanish: Delegación del Gobierno para el Plan Nacional sobre Drogas, DGPNSD) is the executive body of the Spanish Ministry of Health, attached to the Secretary of State for Health, which is responsible for the management, promotion, general coordination and supervision of the services in charge of updating and executing the National ...
The decision affected the second paragraph of Article 14 of the country's drug control legislation (Law Number 23,737) that punishes the possession of drugs for personal consumption with prison sentences ranging from one month to two years (although education or treatment measures can substitute penalties).
Many drugs have more than one name and, therefore, the same drug may be listed more than once. Brand names and generic names are differentiated by capitalizing brand names. See also the list of the top 100 bestselling branded drugs, ranked by sales. Abbreviations are used in the list as follows: INN = International Nonproprietary Name