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Canadian drug plan is ill-founded
Last month, the AARP launched an ad campaign urging Congress to legalize the importation of prescription drugs from Canada. The advertisements were sure to find a sympathetic audience. After all, brand-name drugs are cheaper in Canada. In fact, they're about 5 percent below the international median. At first glance, legalizing importation seems like a laudable…
[...]Medicine counterfeiters arrested
Customs officers have arrested eight people, shutting down a syndicate producing, packaging and distributing counterfeit Chinese cough medicine. They raided a manufacturing site and a distribution company in two factory buildings in Kwai Chung, and three dispensaries in Sham Shui Po and Yau Ma Tei. 06 October 2006 Read the full story at news.gov.hk.
[...]U.S. Green Light on Internet Pharmacy Threatens Public Health and Safety in Canada
Political Deal Needs Decisive Response by Ottawa to Protect Canadian Drug Supply TORONTO, Oct. 5 /CNW/ – The return to a hands-off policy by U.S. Customs on prescription drugs purchased by American patients from Canadian internet pharmacies re-opens the door to the depletion of the Canadian drug supply and threatens public health and safety in…
[...]Counterfeit Drugs: Infected with Greed
Counterfeit pharmaceuticals are flooding hospitals, Web sites, pharmacies and street markets around the world. Visibly indistinguishable from life-saving medicine, the pharmafakes plague the developing world, affecting millions of people and undermining confidence in public health. By Terry J. Allen05 October 2006 Read the full story at inthesetimes.com.
[...]Are Bad Drugs Coming to a Pharmacy Near You?
In "The Third Man," the brilliant, shadowy, 1949 film, Orson Welles' character, Harry Lime, is a morally bankrupt, cynical racketeer and dealer of black-market, diluted penicillin. Purveyors of fake or diluted drugs are no less detestable today than they were six decades ago, but the business has grown to frightening proportions. The highly professional and…
[...]Raid in Aminabad medicine market
LUCKNOW: Finally the district health officials woke upto reports in the media about the circulation of spurious drugs in the state capital. A team of drug control authorities and police personnel raided the wholesale medicine market in Aminabad and took random samples to check the authenticity of the drugs. The drugs have been sent to…
[...]SC to resume hearing of spurious drugs case today
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court will resume today (Monday) the hearing of a suo motu case and review the progress of the Health Ministry in curbing the menace of spurious drugs in the country as the ministry will submit its report to the apex court regarding measures, it has so far taken to check the menace.…
[...]Drug giant will sell direct to beat the counterfeiters
Fake medical kits racket busted
FOLLOWING a police inquiry, a principal supplier of medical kits — used for testing for infections like HIV, hepatitis, malaria and others — was charged with tampering the manufacturing and expiry dates of the kits. These kits with tampered labels of expiry dates were reportedly supplied to government hospitals, blood banks and even private retail…
[...]Spurious drug unit detected
Police on Monday night unearthed a spurious syrup factory and seized 5,000 bottles of addictive phensidyl syrup from Porahati Bazaar in the Keraniganj area of the capital. 27 September 2006 Read the full story at gulf-times.com.
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