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Mylan's pricing strategy was designed to get the company out of a double whammy. At the pharmacy counter, brutal price competition for drugs such as captopril, a hypertension remedy, and naproxen, an antiarthritis drug, has hurt margins. At the factory, the company is facing an escalating legal and regulatory campaign waged by brand-name pharmaceutical companies such as American Home Products and Merck to extend patents on their drugs or prevent others from manufacturing them. "Generics are caught in a squeeze, which is why only half the 24 publicly traded companies in the industry are profitable," says Jerry Treppel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Really Raising Drug Prices? | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

Some days the arthritis pain would get so bad that Sylvia Zebroski, 51, of Stamford, Conn., couldn't sleep. Aspirin worked for a while, but then she developed stabbing pains in her stomach. She switched to naproxen, which, like aspirin, is a so-called nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, or NSAID. Same story. "I took myself off naproxen and went to my doctor in tears," she recalls. He put her on a new experimental drug, and this time, no arthritis pain--and no stomach pain. Says Zebroski: "It's made all the difference in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aspirin Without Ulcers | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...Anti-inflammatories can damage the lining of the stomach. Now, however, ARTHRITIS patients who use anti-inflammatories like naproxen, ketoprofen and ibuprofen can halve their chances of getting an ulcer if they also take a stomach-acid-reducing drug called famotidine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jun. 10, 1996 | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

Tylenol is being challenged by new over-the-counter drugs such as naproxen (brand name: Aleve) and ketoprofen (brand name: Orudis), as well as aspirin. Advil, which is ibuprofen, holds a 12.9% market share and has sold more than 48 billion doses since it became nonprescription in 1984. It contributes some $350 million annually to American Home Products' coffers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BITTER ADS TO SWALLOW | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

...take 21 days' worth of pills for 24 hours' worth of relief. And then there are the dangerous side effects" (increased blood pressure, a greater risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease). Aspirin is helpful against mild pain. Most favored today are three drugs used against arthritis: ibuprofen, naproxen sodium and mefenamic acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Coping with Eve's Curse | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

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