Posts Tagged ‘East Asia’
Bogus drug kills 11th victim in China
DOH warns public vs counterfeit medicines
Iloilo City (21 June) — Counterfeit Medicines can be life threatening, the Department of Health, Region VI warned. According to the DOH about ten percent of medicines bought in pharmacies are fake. Counterfeit or fake medicines are not registered with the Bureau of Food and Drugs. It is manufactured and distributed by persons who only…
[...]Fake drugs could kill
Police arrest 17 in alleged fake drugs gang
Police have cracked a ring involving at least 26 people, which they allege has been a major dealer in counterfeit pharmaceuticals in Fuyang City, east China's Anhui Province. In a joint operation with the city's food and drug administration, police arrested 17 alleged members of the ring and seized 339 items of counterfeit drugs worth…
[...]Japanese arrested for selling counterfeit Viagra, other drugs
(Kyodo) _ A Japanese man was arrested Monday in Gardena, California, on federal charges of trafficking and selling counterfeit Viagra and other fake pharmaceuticals purchased from China, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Masaru Yamasato, 44, was arrested by the FDA's Office of Criminal Investigation and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following a nearly…
[...]Investigacin: Medicina falsificada contra la malaria circula en Sureste de Asia
Investigadores mdicos informan que una medicina falsificada contra la malaria est circulando por el sureste de Asia, y podra extenderse a frica. Un documento publicado en un informe mdico en Internet seala que un hombre, de 23 aos, en Birmania que result infectado con malaria, muri debido a que la medicina que recibi era falsificada.…
[...]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…
[...]Letting punishment fit the crime
GUANGZHOU: Five lawyers in Guangzhou have submitted a proposal to the National People's Congress (NPC) to amend the Law on the Protection of Consumers' Rights and Interests. "We have suggested introducing the measure of punitive damages into the law of China. We hope worse punishments for counterfeit makers can stop fake products damaging people's health,"…
[...]Fake drug in 2 Jiangsu deaths
A HOSPITAL in Jiangsu Province is investigating whether the death of two patients was caused by a fake drug made by a Heilongjiang Province drugmaker, a newspaper reported yesterday. The two men were injected with Armillarisin A made by the Qiqihar No. 2 Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, said the Modern Express. Wang Xiyong, 27, died on…
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