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This decision, according to some medical practitioners, is a welcome development in the pharmaceutical industry, which was likely triggered by the introduction of a bioequivalent brand of simvastatin by a local company which was sold at half the price of the innovator product. 


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Price competition benefits patients

September 25, 2003 - 12:00am

And the battle begins. Much like the way cholesterol stiffens the arteries causing heart problems, competition in the local anticholesterol market also stiffens, but in a favorable way for the patients, with multinationals...

Science and Environment