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Generics Curb Rise in Drug Costs

Cheap alternatives to brand-name meds appear as patents expire

Posted Aug 8, 2007 6:37 PM CDT

(Newser) – Scores of prescription drugs are getting cheaper, as name-brand patents expire and open the door to generic imitators. That's bad news for pharmaceutical companies, the Times reports, but it means that an aging population ever more reliant on drugs will be paying as much as...   Read full story »

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