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Word: antidiarrhea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dramatic savings for consumers−potentially $1 billion over the next twelve years, according to the FDA. Generic drugs already on the market usually cost much less than their brand-name counterparts. At one Dallas pharmacy last week, customers had to pay $8.79 for 20 tablets of Lomotil, an antidiarrhea pill made by G.D. Searle. But the same amount of medication was available under its generic name, diphenoxylate, for only $3.29. In one New York City drugstore, a medicine for high blood pressure made by Ciba-Geigy called Apresoline cost $15 per 100 tablets; its generic equivalent, hydralazine, went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prescription for Cheap Drugs | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

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