
Diabetes Drugs: Bittersweet Truth of Patent Expiries
The Morning Brief
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Is There a Shift in Prescriptions?
Abi har says there is a shift in prescriptions from the traditional drugs, or traditional sulphonelurias, to the limpets. Once a drug loses its patret, the cost of oil, a price for tablet, goes down by around one third. So far affording wthe patients who could not afford ther oeptins earlier. They can be easily shifted the cheaper, branded generes. But if i were to look at the absolute consumption of wades, that has not increased uroner. The number of patient wois s the same.
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