Marcia Angell states, The elderly are hurting most (4) from these high costs of brand-name medicines, but thanks to generics the elderly are able to get the same proper medicines and treatments as the brand-name medicines could have done for them.
A study online by Mint Life showed the process from brand-name to generic by using pictures, and facts that proved their alikeness if one would ever like to check it out its very interesting. Also, Mint Life provided us with an intriguing study from wall stats to show the brand-name Advil and the generic version is indeed the same, but brand-names are just trying to get more money: A familiar friend that is called isobutyl propanoic-phenolic acid is also known as Ibuprofen or Advil. The process for creating Ibuprofen was patented in 1961 (3,385,886) and was available for prescription in 1974 and was available over the counter in 1984. The patent expired two years later. So why is Wyeth, subsidiary of Pfizer, and owner of the Advil brand, spending $114 million a year in advertising trying to sell a product whose only unique feature is its higher price? Because, there is a chance that you may be a moron. (The RIP) .
This scenario really does show that the brand-name company Advil is charging higher prices, because they spend too much money on advertising. Advil (brand-name version) is simply just hoping consumers are dumb enough to believe that their brand-name version is better, and as of right now they are succeeding into deceiving buyers. .
There are a lot of questions concerning why the name, shape, size, and taste of the brand-name and generic versions are different. Well, even though the shape, taste, and size is not the same it wont, nor can it change the effectiveness of the pill. It wont change the effectiveness because the law and the FDA require that the drug works exactly the same as the original, and they do tests on the generic versions to make sure of this.
