Bipolar drug market “to plummet from 2011”
The market will be constrained over the next several years by the patent expiries and subsequent generic erosion of a number of key antipsychotic agents including AstraZeneca’s Seroquel (quetiapine fumarate), Eli Lilly’s Zyprexa (olanzapine), Bristol-Myers Squibb/Otsuka’s Abilify (aripiprazole) and Pfizer’s Geodon (ziprasidone), according to the study, from Decision Resources….
Moreover, patent expiries of branded antidepressants that include Wyeth’s – now Pfizer’s – Effexor XR (venlafaxine), Eli Lilly’s Cymbalta/Xeristar (duloxetine) and Forest/Lundbeck’s Lexapro/Cipralex (escitalopram) will further constrain the market, according to the report….
These patent expirations happen at various times between 2011 and 2018.
A story on bipolar drugs that will soon become generic
As it were: after the drugs become generic, so may the story – at which time, though, we might call the latter not so much generic as viral…
It should make treatment cheaper. One would expect new drugs in the pipeline soon.
Steve
One would expect new drugs in the pipeline soon.
I hope so, but health care “reform” and other government policies may slow development of new medical technology.
Pshaw. Most new drugs that come out are only more expensive than their predecessors, not significantly different. I’m all for constraining development of new useless expensive drugs. Every year we have a boatload of these new and not-better drugs, molecules that resemble the generics in nearly all ways, except maybe they are now coated and come in odd milligram doses, or have a slightly different side chain. Then come the badly designed studies that prove that the new drugs are better in some way, and thousands of patients are switched from generics or given these new ones as first line treatments.
I think it is terrific that these drugs are going generic. It should significantly increase peoples’ access to them and make care for people who are on public assistance due to mental illness be more affordable.
Janice, I’m with you. Generics are both cheaper and better tested for side effects. I try to avoid brand name drugs whenever possible. I hate the klong that comes when I read something on line about some awful side effects from some brand new whizbang medication my doctor just prescribed for me. For a while that was happening once a month or so (I have both arthritis and a tendency to ulcers.) Foo.