1. Although the best-known lindane product, Kwell, is no longer being manufactured, generic forms of lindane are still available. 2. Earlier this week, the drug company lost a legal fight to block Novopharm Ltd. from selling a generic form of Zantac. 3. Generic forms for wills, real estate leases and such have been around for years. 4. It is far more profitable than the other two, which are now off patent and available in generic form at much lower cost. 5. IVAX CAN SELL GENERIC DIABETES DRUG Ivax said it had received conditional approval from regulators to sell generic forms of Glucophage, the top-selling diabetes medicine. 6. Outside the United States, many foreign drug companies make ciprofloxacin, the generic form of Cipro. 7. Shares of Zeneca, which makes the drug tamoxifen, and Barr Laboratories, which sells its generic form, rose sharply. 8. The agreement prevented the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from approving generic forms of Taxol for six years. 9. The company is trying to block a group of drug companies from marketing a generic form Taxol. 10. The drugs include not just Cipro, but also doxycycline and penicillin, which are already available in generic form. |