Byline: Source: NDC Health through November 2003
1. HYDROCODONE 86.4 million prescriptions
Doctors dispense more hydrocodone than any other medication, since many people use it at one point or another for a variety of pain and illness. Hydrocodone is a pain reliever pe…
By Jonathan Maze, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 9–Marsha Hansen takes Synthroid, a prescription thyroid medication, once every day. At $23 a month, it’s not the most expensive drug on the market, but th…
Generics News — Belcher Pharmaceuticals last month filed a patent on a method to stabilize the drug levothyroxine. Levothyroxine, sold under the brand names Synthroid (Abbott Laboratories) and Soloxine (King Pharmaceuticals), is used to treat thyroid-related con…
