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                    [Summary] => The release of a cheap anti-cholesterol drug triggered the lowering of prices of similar drugs by over 50 percent, a drug company official said yesterday.


United Laboratories (Unilab), a Filipino-owned pharmaceutical firm, came up with Vidastat, its own version of the anti-cholesterol drug simvastatin, after its patent expired in 2002. Simvastatin was first produced by a drug company in the United States.


Philippine laws allow pharmaceutical firms to produce their own copies of off-patent drugs.


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United Laboratories (Unilab), a Filipino-owned pharmaceutical firm, came up with Vidastat, its own version of the anti-cholesterol drug simvastatin, after its patent expired in 2002. Simvastatin was first produced by a drug company in the United States.


Philippine laws allow pharmaceutical firms to produce their own copies of off-patent drugs.


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Anti-cholesterol drugs now cheaper

By Sheila Crisostomo | October 24, 2003 - 12:00am

The release of a cheap anti-cholesterol drug triggered the lowering of prices of similar drugs by over 50 percent, a drug company official said yesterday. United Laboratories (Unilab), a Filipino-owned pharmaceutical...

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