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The greatest loss was in the category of ulcer drugs, the report said, where the difference in the average price of the branded drugs and the generics was $80. The second-greatest loss was in pills to lower high cholesterol.
In a statement, the , the brand-drug industry's trade group, said the increase in generic drug usage advocated by Express Scripts should be a decision made between doctor and patient.
The study, based on sampling, found three states tied for greatest use of generic drugs: Oregon, Massachusetts and New Mexico.
the nation's largest publisher of alternative weekly newspapers, is buying the owner of the creating a company with 17 weekly publications with a combined circulation of 1.8 million. The new company will keep the Village Voice name.
Texas has sold a lease for an 11,000-acre tract in the Gulf of Mexico that backers believe could become the first wind energy farm along the U.S. coast.
The wind turbines planned by a subsidiary of Louisiana-based would be seven miles off Galveston Island and could power 40,000 homes.
The bidding war for escalated Monday with the retailers' directors saying the buyout proposal of two New York investment firms is superior to one the company has tentatively accepted. and have made a cash offer of $8.85 a share, or about $302 million, for the Knoxville, Tenn.-based clothing chain.
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