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brand-name drug

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Noun1.brand-name drug - a drug that has a trade name and is protected by a patent (can be produced and sold only by the company holding the patent)
drug - a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic
generic drug - when the patent protection for a brand-name drug expires generic versions of the drug can be offered for sale if the FDA agrees; "generic drugs are usually cheaper than brand-name drugs"

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Gilead Sciences' brand-name drug tenofovir, which has significantly fewer side effects than some older ARVs, was added to the World Health Organization's list of pre-qualified medicines recommended for use by UN agencies in developing countries.
Together, these three books offer consumers ample reason to ask questions before filling a prescription, and to think twice before going to the doctor to demand a brand-name drug.
Under data exclusivity, a controversial rule first imposed in 1987, for a period of about eight years after approval of a new drug, a country cannot accept an application for a generic bioequivalent to a brand-name drug even if the patent is expired or is otherwise not a problem, because that is called "unfair" use of the knowledge that the brand-name drug worked in the first place.
 
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