Generics in the news

New York Tiimes: Shopper’s strategy for prescription drugs 

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Cholesterol drug Vytorin does 'zilch' to help heart disease 

Top doctors urge return to standard treatments - CHICAGO -- Leading doctors urged a return to older, tried-and-true treatments for high cholesterol after hearing full results Sunday of a failed trial of Vytorin.

New York Times: Study Reveals Doubt on Drug for Cholesterol

A clinical trial of a widely used cholesterol drug has raised questions both about the medicine’s effectiveness and about the behavior of the pharmaceutical companies that conducted the study, cardiologists said . . . Read more. 

Everett Herald: Prescriptions: Pricier isn’t necessarily better (Opinion)

Listen enough times to Dr. Robert Jarvik, inventor of the famous Jarvik Artificial Heart, tell you to consider Lipitor for your high cholesterol, and the message starts to sink in. And why shouldn't it? Jarvik's image, even in a TV commercial for the popular drug, carries a lot of credibility. Read more.  

TIME: Medication errors hurt millions each year  

Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. It's a shocking statistic, and, according to a July 2006 report from the National Academies of Science's Institute of Medicine (IOM), preventable medication mistakes also injure more than 1.5 million Americans annually. Read more.