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Thai Officials Worried about Counterfeit Malaria Drugs
Thai health officials have expressed concern over counterfeit or expired malaria drugs discovered along the Thai-Burmese border that could potentially create more resistant strains of the disease. Dr Prat Bunyawongvirot, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Public Health, said during a regional health meeting on Tuesday that malaria is still a major problem in tropical…
[...]FLORIDA MAN SENTENCED IN FAKE LIPITOR CONSPIRACY
Fake foreign drugs detected in Vietnam
The fake medicines violate numerous drug regulations and standards with false VDA content declarations, bacterial contaminations, inconsistent dissolutions of medicines, incorrect weights and textures of drugs as well as improper mixing of eastern and western medicines. 07 September 2006 Read the full story at vietnamnet.vn.
[...]DEFENDANT IN FAKE FLU VACCINE CASE CONVICTED
Houston man pleads guilty in fake vaccine scheme
The owner of a Houston home health-care business pleaded guilty today to federal charges accusing him of selling fake flu vaccine that was injected into nursing home residents and 1,100 Exxon Mobil employees. Iyad Abu El Hawa, 36, admitted that he purchased thousands of syringes and needles from an out-of-state company with the unauthorized use…
[...]Is Hezbollah cashing in on Viagra and vice?
Drug Piracy: A Wave of Counterfeit Medicines Washes Over Russia
Le Nigeria s’attaque aux pharmacies sauvages
END OF THE ROAD
Parents and guardians living in Kubwa, a satellite town in Abuja, and Suleja, another town in Niger State, but close to the Federal Capital, have every reason to give thanks to the almighty God, following the arrest of three people that specialise in the sale and administration of unregistered, substandard and expired Hepatitis B vaccines…
[...]Initiative To Reduce Counterfeit Drugs Gets Mixed Reviews
Come December, drug makers and distributors will have to keep track of every single person who handles the 7.5 million bottles of medicine shipped daily within the U.S. These companies also will have to keep track of the drugs' lot numbers and the addresses they pass through. It's all part of an effort to reduce…
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