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Patent life - ✔️✔️Length of time from patent approval until patent expiration
-Normally 17 years in newly discovered drug molecule
Biosimilar - ✔️✔️Copy version of an already authorized biological product
-New category of the generic drug market
Therapeutic equivalence - ✔️✔️One drug in a class of several drugs is chosen as the
preferred agent, even though the drugs do not have the same active ingredients
-In place due to high cost of drugs
-Both drugs have same therapeutic effect on the body
Drug classification - ✔️✔️Drugs are grouped together based on their similar properties
-Can be classified by structure or therapeutic use
Three basic areas of pharmacology that describe the relationship between the dose of a
drug and the activity of that drug in treating the disorder - ✔️✔️Pharmaceutics
Pharmacokinetics
Pharmacodynamics
Pharmaceutics - ✔️✔️The study of how various drug forms influence the way in which the
drug affects the body
-Different drug dosage forms have different pharmaceutical properties
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