Prozac, the antidepressant medication that is taken by some 40 million Americans, will soon be available in a less expensive generic version. Prozac’s manufacturer, Eli Lilly & Co., lost its patent ...

W A S H I N G T O N, Aug.1 -- The 2 million Americans who take the antidepressant drug Prozac should have an alternative as early as Friday. Brand-name drug-maker Eli Lilly's patent on the drug ...

Q. You’ve written about problems with generic drugs, and I wanted to share that pets can also be adversely affected by changes in generic medications. Our dog was prescribed generic Prozac nine years ...

Since its launch in 1987, the antidepressant Prozac has become one of the biggest-selling drugs in history, transforming lives like that of Belinda Brown, who was on a downward spiral until she began ...

NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Just a year after Barr Laboratories won its first legal battle against Eli Lilly over a generic form of blockbuster antidepressant Prozac, the cheaper capsule is heading toward ...

NEW YORK — The biggest generic drug launch in history began Thursday as Barr Laboratories started shipping a generic form of the anti-depressant Prozac to stores for sale. Barr won't specify how much ...

Consumers have spent a small fortune on this immensely popular green-and-white capsule, longing for a cure-all to combat depression or other mental disorders. Now they don't have to dig as deep into ...

Barr won’t specify how much the generic drug will cost, but said the price will be between 25 to 40 percent lower than Prozac’s daily cost of $2.63. That means the approximately 2 million people ...

There has been a medical milestone of sorts. It involves the pill that revolutionized the treatment of depression and brought smiles to the faces of Eli Lilly shareholders. Now Prozac has gone generic ...

Barr Laboratories Inc. began shipping its version of Prozac, the hugely successful drug that revolutionized the treatment of depression, in the biggest generic drug launch ever. The drug was expected ...

Prozac changed Barbara Solow's life. The Fairfax County, Va., woman, whose bipolar disorder was diagnosed in 1985, tried different drugs to combat her mood swings before settling on the famous ...