November 2009

Drug Patent Expirations in December 2009

November 30, 2009

Drug Patent Expirations for December 2009 Tradename Applicant Generic Name Patent Number Patent Expiration MIGRANAL Valeant dihydroergotamine mesylate 5,169,849 Dec 8, 2009 PHOTOFRIN Axcan Scandipharm porfimer sodium 5,145,863 Dec 15, 2009 XENICAL Hoffmann La Roche orlistat 4,598,089*PED Dec 18, 2009 CEDAX Sciele Pharma Inc ceftibuten dihydrate 4,812,561 Dec 20, 2009 OXILAN-300 Guerbet ioxilan 4,954,348 Dec [...]

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Perspectives on the Kyoto Prize

November 17, 2009

This is my initial response to the Kyoto Prize, which I was able to attend on a fellowship from Point Loma Nazarene University. For more details on the Kyoto Prize see my previous post. I had an opportunity to interact with each of the laureates, and focused on the question of how it was that [...]

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Is the practice of medicine impeding medical innovation?

November 4, 2009

At a recent event on the comparative advantages of small molecule vs. biologic drugs, several themes emerged which led me to re-examine the question of whether the practice of medicine is capable of keeping pace with medical innovation. As mentioned in a previous post, the majority of patients receiving the personalized medicine drug Herceptin had [...]

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Drug Patent Expirations in November 2009

November 2, 2009

Drug Patent Expirations for November 2009 Tradename Applicant Generic Name Patent Number Patent Expiration ACULAR LS Allergan ketorolac tromethamine 5,110,493*PED Nov 5, 2009 ACULAR Allergan ketorolac tromethamine 5,110,493*PED Nov 5, 2009 PREVPAC Takeda Pharms Na amoxicillin; clarithromycin; lansoprazole 4,628,098*PED Nov 10, 2009 PREVACID IV Takeda Pharms Na lansoprazole 4,628,098*PED Nov 10, 2009 ACEON Solvay Pharms [...]

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