PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis is preparing to sell its own generic version of the blockbuster heart medicine Plavix in France, a company spokesman said on Monday. Plavix, ...

News of the expanded indication comes during a showdown between the marketer/manufacturer of the drug, Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS)/Sanofi-Aventis, and Canadian drug company Apotex, which started ...

Generic competition will decimate sales of the brand-name drugs and slash the cost to patients and companies that provide health benefits. Top drugs getting generic competition by September 2012 are ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Sanofi-Aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb , which are just recovering from defeating generic competition to their top-selling Plavix drug in the United States, now face a similar ...

The cost of prescription medicines used by millions of people every day is about to plummet. The next 14 months will bring generic versions of seven of the world's 20 best-selling drugs, including the ...

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New York- A Canadian company's cheap generic version of the blood thinner Plavix has been blocked from the U.S. market until at least 2011. U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein said Tuesday that Apotex ...

How the influx of generics is bad for drug makers but good for you. July 25, 2011— -- intro: Ten of the world's top-selling prescription drugs are about to get cheaper. Over the next 17 months, ...

As expected, Sanofi-Aventis has seen its fourth-quarter earnings take a hammering from generic competition to the antithrombotic Plavix and diabetes treatment Amaryl, but overall revenues were up ...

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY) and Sanofi-Aventis (SNY) now have the upper hand in an upcoming patent trial over their blockbuster heart drug Plavix, if Thursday’s court injunction in the case is any ...