Medicine & Prescription Policy
When it comes to upholding ethical standards and regulatory measures, Medicscales ensures that the commitment to safe, responsible, and legal practices remains a top priority. Whatever practices we carry out at Medicscales, patient security, adherence to regulations, and transparency remains the core focus of our medicine and prescription policy.
What Are Generic Medicines?
Generic Medicines are those, which share the same core ingredients (chemicals), dose strength, form of application, and most importantly the desired therapeutic benefit as their branded equivalents.
Generic medicines are only manufactured legally when the patent period of brand medicines expires and the manufacturers get the approval from the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) in the United States, MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency) in the United Kingdom, and other concerned regulatory bodies to produce.
Once the manufacturer meets the standards for quality, safety, strength, purity, and bioequivalence aspects of these regulatory bodies, they are allowed to produce and market the generic medicine as a more affordable alternative.
What Is The Difference Between Generic Medicines And Brand Medicines?
Although from the surface level, both generic and brand medicine may seem similar, on the deepest levels they differ in the following aspects;
*Cost Structure
Generic drugs are frequently offered at reduced rates since manufacturers do not suffer the upfront expenditures of finding, manufacturing, and aggressively promoting the brand medicine.
*Physical Appearance
Due to the existing rules of Trademark, the generic ones need to be different in aspects like color, size, shape, outer packaging, or even some markings.
*Inactive Ingredients
Although core ingredients need to be the same, inactive ingredients and chemicals vary from slight to significant. This is because inactive ingredients do not affect the therapeutic action of the drug, but may impact factors such as taste, texture, or shelf life.
*Patent Status
As soon as patents or any concerned protection of the original brand medicines expires, the law permits other pharmaceutical companies to produce generic versions of the drug. This will result in increased competition in the market, eventually bringing the prices down for the consumers.
*Manufacturer Origin
Branded medications are normally made by the innovator company, however, as the patents expires, all the licensed pharmacy companies follows it to produce generic versions. Even the generic manufacturers need to comply to the strict standards.
What Is Prescription Policy?
In order to ensure safety aspect of patients, certain drugs are demanded to be presented with valid prescription generated by licensed healthcare practitioner.
Many times, laypeople get confused about the need for a prescription for generic drugs, as they are more affordable and readily available. However, it is important to remember that even generic medications can have potential side effects and interactions with other drugs, which is why a prescription is still necessary for certain medications.
So whenever, there is a need for prescription verification, medicscales makes sure that no drug is dispatched without proper prescription.
When Is Prescription Required?
There exists two kinds of medicines, i.e, Prescription only medicines (POMs) and OTC (Over the Counter, i.e, non-prescription medicines).
presented with prescription while buying from online medicinestore like Medicscales.
While ‘OTC’ category does not need valid prescription at all.
Important Reminder: The POMs category rules may differ for each region or country, some countries may require prescription, while others may not need prescription for certain prescription.
What Is The Procedure Of Submitting Prescription?
Patients can provide an evident and legible copy of a prescription using the following recognised ways, such as:
- Uploading a valid and clear prescription at checkout
- Safe electronic submission
- Email submissions are also accepted
The given prescription should include Patient information, details about the prescriber, date of issuance, drug information, signed or legally recognized authentication.
And if you need to upload your prescription first, you can visit our RX Upload page and upload your prescription there.
Communication And Verification By Customer Support
Once the prescription is submitted by the consumer, it is verified further by the team of Medicscales to ensure further safety and regulatory compliance.
The verification procedure usually involves;
- Validation of a prescription
- Examining the entirety of prescriptions
- reaching out to the prescribing practitioner as required
- Verifying patient data where authorised by law.
If prescription criteria are not confirmed, shipments may be postponed, changed, or canceled.
And if you need any additional information, please contact the Communications Policy. We will be happy to assist you.
Prescription Product Eligibility And Compliance
Medicscales is highly dedicated to delivering only medications that meet all applicable pharmaceutical legislation and quality requirements.
All the products available on the Medicscales are posted once they have passed the following legal requirements;
- Legally allowed to sell
- Manufactured in properly licensed facilities
- Produced according to accepted quality standards and government medicine policy
- correctly marked and wrapped
- Suitable for legitimate sale in applicable areas
However, availability of medicines on our online cheap medicines store may vary according to each country’s regulation and medicine policies.
Strict No-Controlled-Substance Policy
For Medicscales patients’ safety, compliance to regulatory bodies, quality, and affordability are some of the primary goals.
Medicscales do not engage in activities of selling, marketing, or distribution of prohibited medications, narcotics, or other highly regulated treatments unless explicitly authorised by relevant law and backed by all necessary governmental approvals.
Any medicines or drugs categorised as forbidden, restricted, fake, imitation, or illegally promoted are not available on Medicscales’ platform.
Patient Safety, Legal Responsibility, And Fair Balance
Along with quality medicines, Medicscales is hell bent on providing content that is highly accurate, reliable, and transparent, so it can help users to make informed decisions about their health and life.
At Medicscales we try offer the information, such as;
- Approved applications of the drug
- Information related to dosage
- Safety precautions
- Contraindications and interactions
- Side effects that may occur
- Other important safety concerns
However, this doesn’t end the users’ responsibilities, this is when it starts. Users need to follow these things;
- Following directions given by a healthcare professional
- Reading medicine information that comes with their therapy
- Taking drugs just as prescribed
- Reporting unpleasant consequences to their healthcare providers immediately
Moreover, at Medicscales we strongly discourage patients to self-medicate and share their prescriptions with others.
All the information published on the platform is purely for educational purpose, so it ought not to be taken as substitute for consultation with a trained healthcare expert.
Monitoring, Quality Control & Internal Protocols Contact And Support
Each and single medicine that is available on the platform, first goes through many rigorous testing and screening process to ensure safety and compliance aspect.
This process includes;
- Regulatory compliance assessment: verifying that the product fulfils all the required legal and regulatory compliance measures.
- Source validation: Making sure that all the products are sourced from only reputable and licensed manufacturers.
- Quality verification: Making sure that medicines are packed in ways that it supports it’s quality, longevity, and effectiveness.
- Restricted-product screening: This policy identifies and excludes medications that are illegal, heavily restricted, or otherwise inappropriate for sale.
- Review of accurateness of information: All the information published on the platform goes through thorough checking by the expert team. The team ensures that the information is complete, accurate, and trustworthy.
In order to upkeep with the national and international regulatory policies, we at Medicscales make sure to update our internal policies whenever and wherever required.