Generic Drug Identifier
What is a Generic Drug anyway?
Generic drugs are the drugs which are manufactured and marketed without a patent. When a company produces a drug, it gets a patent to reserve its exclusive right to manufacture and market the drug. Every patent is granted for time period of 20 years. When the patent expires, the company loses the exclusive rights to produce and sell the drug and hence other companies get the approval to produce the off-patent drug. These off-patent drugs are known as generic drugs. Not all off-patent drugs are manufactured as generic drugs.
Some Common myths about Generic Drugs
The term ‘generic’ is usually considered a synonym of less-quality. Fortunately, in medicine it is not true. Talking about generic drugs, many questions come in mind. Multiple myths exist about generic drugs. It is wrongly believed that generic drugs are not effective and people have serious doubts about the efficacy of generic drugs. Some others think that generic drugs are made of different chemical formulae when compared to their branded versions. These myths have now been busted by FDA, the United States Federal Food and Drug Administration. FDA has approved that the generic drugs have the same features, strength, purity level, and functional stability as their branded versions. Generic drugs work in exactly the same way and with exactly the same efficiency as their branded counterparts. In fact, generic drugs have some positive aspects. Generic drugs cost significantly less than their branded versions. One can save as much as half the amount of the branded version on generic drugs.
Drug Identification
Readers please take notice that even drugs with same brand name are different from each other. For instance: Percocet is the brand name of a pain killer. Percocet is available in different colors in different countries. These color classification is carried out based upon the drug strength and dosages. Percocet having 2.5 mg Oxycodone HCI and 325mg acetaminophen is available in oval-shaped pink colored tablet while Percocet having 10mg Oxycodone HCI and 325 mg Acetaminophen is available in a capsule of yellow color.
The drug is identified by its shape, its color, and the alphabets/number engraved on the tablet/capsule. For example Viagra is available in diamond shaped blue-colored tablet with Pfizer written on one side and VGR written on the other side. Drugs can be identified by these alphabets and numbers. Online identification of drugs is carried out by asking the user about the information imprinted on the pill, shape of the pill/tablet, and the color of the tablet.
Generic drug identification is also carried out the same way. You can also consult your doctor for drug identification and to ask whether the generic drug is appropriate for you or not.
generic meridia pill identifier concern
I have had meridia in the past and it was alway in capsul form either blue and white or yellow and white but it was way too expensive so i ordered it online and got small orange pills with no writing on it but one side has an octagone.
New features in the Pill Identifier
The ever popular Pill Identifier has just been updated to include imprint and drug name suggestions, a visual shape selector, ordering by popularity or manufacturer, generic name listings and the ability to display up to 50 results.
Generic Drug Names in 1993-1994
The route of administration is not specified in NAMCS and NHAMCS; therefore, oral, topical, and other forms of the same compound were encoded using a single generic identifier. DRUGS OF INTEREST We determined the most commonly mentioned.
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