Generic Drugs

The Pfizer corporation announced on Tuesday that its officials had inked a licensing agreement which will enable less wealthy nations to distribute its antiviral drug Paxlovid in the form of generic anti-Covid pills. Pfizer, based out of New York City,...

Greeks have had to turn to generic medicine as the economic crisis has worsened over the past few years and fewer people have insurance due to unemployment. This has been a difficult adjustment for Greeks, as they have a deep...

The Troika representing Greece's lenders once again called for increased use of generic over brand-name patented medication in the country, during a meeting with Greek Health Minister Makis Voridis at the Finance Ministry on Friday. The meeting centered mainly on...

Germany's Health envoy to Greece, in an interview with Deutsche Welle on Thursday, stated that the situation of the Greek healthcare system is disastrous, adding that generic drugs would dramatically cut down healthcare costs.  Wolfgang Zöller, speaking at a briefing of...

Greek Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis has said that, by the end of next year, Greece aims to triple the amount of generic drugs prescribed, so as to close the gap to the targets that have been set by its international...

On September 10, the Health Ministry and the industry representatives signed an agreement for distributing free medicine to the poor and uninsured, in order to create a network of free medicine distributors, which will operate along similar lines to...

A new government measure obliging Greek doctors to prescribe medicine to patients using the name of the active ingredient, not the brand name, is expected to increase consumption of generic drugs and, at the same time, cut health spending...