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It also argued that the price was less than that of the equivalent medicine from another supplier to the NHS.
Generic substitution systems can vary between countries but basically in generic substitution pharmacies have the right or obligation to substitute the cheapest or close to the cheapest equivalent medicine for a prescribed medicine [12].
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Pharmacies that receive prescriptions for Gaviscon Advance must dispense it, as it is patent-protected and there are no generic equivalent medicines.
If NHS doctors prescribe cheaper, clinically equivalent medicines to patients that have a co-payment, this may be suggestive of the proper functioning of the doctor-patient agency relationship, but it could also be a symptom of an ex-post moral hazard in the sense that when patients do not bear the cost of treatment they receive the most expensive one, not necessarily the most cost-effective [ 2].
These pseudoephedrine prescription requirements apply to only 15 pharmaceutical products and their generic equivalents — medicines like Sudafed 12 Hour, Aleve D and Advil Cold and Sinus.
It seems to me that we should bring in the engineering equivalent of medicine's clinical professors, senior practitioners who will rebalance and contextualise our engineering science and applied mathematics courses with a little engineering pragmatism.
This is altering the nature of public service provided by dentists as it moves from being equivalent to medicine towards other professions such as law within the UK and dentistry.
The development of new medicines having efficacy equivalent to antibody medicines without such drawbacks is in progress.
The World Trade Organization has ruled in favor of Canadian drug manufacturers who wanted the right to develop generic equivalents of medicines patented in the European Union before the patents have expired.
In America, they pay high prices because nobody is negotiating on their behalf on a national scale, and patients might not know that the drug their doctor prescribed could be replaced by an equivalent, often cheaper, medicine in some cases.
Lots of studies show that we each tend to think that we are better-looking than average, that we are smarter than average, and the equivalent happens in medicine, too.
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