Aug 18, 2025
Provigil was launchd in the UK in March 1998 and it is used to promote wakefulness in patients with narcolepsy, a condition characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness. The first sign of parallel imports being sold into the UK was in November 2001, and though a...
Aug 5, 2025
Between 2001 and 2022 the number of generics in the English drug tariff increased from 1682 to 3955. Most of this was driven by increased patient demand and new product launches to cope with this demand. However, more recently the number of products in this...
Aug 4, 2025
The WaveData Team wanted to find an example of a parallel import appearing in the UK, it’s birth in competition with the UK brand, and it’s final demise once generics had hit the market. We looked at all the different constituent molecules for which we had been able...
Jul 10, 2025
Before December 2022 when generics were launched, all prescriptions, branded and generic would have been dispensed as MSD’s Januvia Tabs 100mg 28. This explains why the generic and branded lines on the graph follow the same trend. The green PI average price line...
Jul 10, 2025
Pramipexole Tabs 88mcg 30 is one of those products that suffers regular price bounces. In this case it seems to be almost exactly every two years, which in our minds fits with manufacturing cycles. The generic form of Boehringer Ingelheim’s Mirapexin was launched in...
May 27, 2025
Prior to the launch of generics in August 2011 the UK and Parallel Imported (PI) packs of Keppra Tabs 250mg 28 had very similar prices. However, post August 2011 the market changed completely. Firstly, generics appeared in the market and took six months to fall from...
