AbbVie and Allergan: Synthroid and Armour

[helvella]

Pharmaceutical companies and their brands changed as regularly as the wind direction. However, to the best of my understanding, at present this is the ownership of the largest USA levothyroxine and desiccated thyroid brands:

AbbVie owns the Synthroid branded levothyroxine.

Allergan owns the Armour branded desiccated thyroid. (Through its acquisition of Forest as part of Actavis.)

However, AbbVie now own Allergan.

Hence, both Synthroid and Armour are owned by one gigantic pharmaceutical company.

In June 2019, U.S. pharmaceutical company AbbVie announced it had reached an agreement to acquire Allergan for $63 billion. The merged company would be domiciled in the U.S. for tax purposes.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergan

AND

abbvie.com/abbvie-allergan-...

Just to confuse a little more, Synthroid is manufactured by Mylan in Canada for "rest of world" distribution - excepting USA.

In late July 2019, Mylan and Pfizer announced that Pfizer would spin off and merge its off-patent medicine division, Upjohn, with Mylan, forming a brand new pharmaceutical business with sales of around $20 billion.[94] The new company will be called Viatris, a name held by one of Mylan's subsidiaries.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylan

Apologies. I didn't mean to give you a headache.

[TSH110]

What a tangled web they weave.

[RedApple in reply to TSH110]

When pharmas practise to deceive?

[helvella in reply to RedApple]

Many years ago, there was a bit of a meme about the crazy, deformed webs spiders build when given various drugs. (I remember caffeine was particularly potent.)

Anyone thinks that the drugs companies have been taking too many of their own... ?

[RedApple in reply to helvella]

Very good

[shaws in reply to helvella]

I wouldn't be surprised. Normally, we cannot get a straight and honest answer from companies to any query we may have about their products.

[shaws in reply to helvella]

I think they need to start taking T3 and give us all a rest from their pointless adjustments/takeovers. It is obvious someone's brain isn't functioning and so need a Full Thyroid Blood Test immediately, i.e. TSH, T4, T3, Free T4, Free T3 and thyroid antibodies. If FT4 and FT3 are low, they need to be investigated and be given the appropriate dose for brain to function and so that all patients are then able to recover from miserable symptoms and get on with their life.

[HappyGirl80s]

Helvella, thank you so very much for your time in taking to conduct this research and to share it with all of the rest of us so that we may be informed too. You are so greatly appreciated!

It seems that AbbVie has the monopoly on the most expensive and frequently used medications (Synthroid and Armour). They have an opportunity to start out on the right foot (so as to speak) and develop and market these medications responsibly with affordability, and with consistency/dependability/rigor in their manufacturing processes. It would be nice for once, for such a wonderful and blessed thing to occur!

Thank you again, have a blessed day!

[shaws in reply to HappyGirl80s]

We need a miracle or two to enlighten the manufacturers how much people rely upon products, which enable patients to recover their health. Mind you, the more prescriptions patients receive, the better Big Pharma's profits.

[helvella]

Which is why I appreciate anyone who informs me if anything I post is incorrect. It is absolutely guaranteed that I get things wrong - like everyone else.

On the web, there is far, far too much which is plain wrong.

Sometimes understanding has improved means what was formerly believed is now understood to be incorrect.

Sometimes there is imperfect understanding with the result that what is passed on is incorrect.

Sometimes there are the usual mistakes of any written documents. Typos. Completely wrong words. Convoluted sentences.

Sometimes things were written for commercial advantage.

Sometimes the writer simply doesn't care.

[helvella]

Yes - but it is such an important issue...

I get wound up and splurge. 🕷🕸

[helvella]

Probably depends on where you look it up.

Try the New Oxford Dictionary for Secondary Schools...