Recent developments in the world’s leading generic markets

Abstract

Possible net savings achieved via generic substitution of brand name drugs within the EU healthcare expenditure amount to € 30 billion. In the course of the past 5 years, some of the leading therapy classes, such as oncologics, antihypertensive, antidiabetics, lipid regulators, antipsychotics, platelet aggregation inhibitors, antiulcerants and a few others, experienced fierce generic competition, when blockbuster patents expired. This review aims to describe contemporary circumstances within the leading global generic markets.