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Epidemic of Fake Pharmaceuticals Prompts Study
Increase in Counterfeit Anti-Malarial Drug Prompts Call for Better Enforcement
Fake malaria drug implicated in Burmese man’s death
A 23-year old man in Burma with malaria died because the medicine he received was fake, according to an investigative report by an international team of researchers published in PLoS Medicine. The patient went to a rural hospital in East Burma with a fever and was diagnosed as having a straightforward case of falciparum malaria.…
[...]Interior execs, police ordered to help in anti-fake drugs drive
INTERIOR and Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno has directed regional officials of the interior department and the Philippine National Police (PNP) to join forces with the health department and different local government leagues in cracking down hard on syndicates behind the proliferation of fake medicines in the market. Puno stressed the need to choke the…
[...]Genetic ‘Shield’ Guards Against Damaging Effects of Radiation Therapy
British researchers say they have found a way to shield healthy bone marrow cells from dangerous radiation during cancer treatments, the BBC reports. Writing in the latest issue of the Journal of Gene Medicine, scientists from Manchester University's Paterson Institute for Cancer Research say they have developed a genetic technique that stimulates bone marrow stem…
[...]Drug Adulteration Ring Member Receives 21-Year Sentence
Groceries selling drugs illegally
FDA Announces New Measures to Protect Americans from Counterfeit Drugs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced new steps to strengthen existing protections against the growing problem of counterfeit drugs. The measures, which were recommended in a report released today by the agency's Counterfeit Drug Task Force, emphasize certain regulatory actions and the use of new technologies for safeguarding the integrity of the…
[...]Fake Generic Viagra Site Using Google Name
The site by ED Choice, which sells generic versions of drugs like Viagra, Levitra and Cialis (none of which exist in what I like to call "the real world"), features a Google logo with the "o"s replaced by two li'l Viagra pills, as well as this text: We've just launched a pharmaceutical interface for Google,…
[...]Inside the world of counterfeit drugs
Chances are you didn't think twice about the last prescription you picked up from the pharmacy, trusting that the medicine in the bottle matches the information on the label. After all, America's drug supply is the safest in the world. But a dose of reality: as more and more drugs are being sold on the…
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