Reuters

Ranbaxy gets tentative FDA okay for generic Nexium

LONDON/MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's Ranbaxy Laboratories has tentative U.S. approval to sell a generic form of AstraZeneca's blockbuster heartburn and ulcer pill Nexium, damaging confidence in the Anglo ...
Houston Chronicle

HMOs discourage use of drug Nexium in favor of Prilosec

CHICAGO -- U.S. employers, struggling to tame double-digit health inflation, are putting the squeeze on AstraZeneca's ulcer drug Nexium, a product the Anglo-Swedish drug maker sorely needs to boost ...
Becker's ASC

FDA approves generic version of GERD treatment drug

The FDA approved the first generic version of Nexium — esomeprazole magnesium delayed-release capsules — to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease. Esomeprazole is a proton pump inhibitor that reduces ...
Reuters

Astra loses Canada court case over generic Nexium

LONDON (Reuters) - Generic competition to AstraZeneca's top-selling acid reflux drug Nexium moved a step closer in Canada, after a court rejected the drugmaker's bid to stop a copycat version from ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press

Medicare data show contrast in generic, brand prescribing

Consider: the sixth-most prescribed Part D drug in 2013 was a close cousin of Nexium, a heartburn drug called omeprazole, given to nearly 6.4 million beneficiaries, noted Dr. Michael Steinman, a ...
Wall Street Journal

Connecticut AG to FDA: Let Ranbaxy Sell a Generic Nexium, Already

Will the FDA ever allow Ranbaxy Laboratories to sell a generic version of the Nexium heartburn pill? The Connecticut attorney general wants to know what is taking the agency so long, because Ranbaxy ...