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26 SAFEMEDICINES Drug Safety Tips For Patients Learn how to protect yourself from counterfeit medicines and fake online pharmacies. Use SAFEMEDICINES 26 drug safety tips to learn how to keep yourself and your loved ones safe from counterfeit drugs. Are you a public health communicator who wants to insert this messaging into your own email, social media, print, or other…
Read MoreSAFEMEDICINES 27 Drug Safety Tips For Doctors Learn how to protect your patients from the dangers posed by counterfeit drugs. Use SAFEMEDICINES 27 drug safety tips for physicians to keep your patients safe from and your practice free of counterfeit drugs. Are you a public health communicator who wants to insert this messaging into your own email, social media, print,…
Read MoreSAFEMEDICINES Safety Tips for Doctors and Patients Educate your organization members on the dangers of counterfeit medicines, but also teach them how to keep safe from dangerous fake drugs. SAFEMEDICINES has 26 tips for patients and another 27 for doctors and other healthcare providers that you can share with your members in your newsletters, on your facebook page, on twitter,…
Read MoreRhode Island pair pleaded guilty to being part of an international criminal enterprise based in Israel that imported steroids and misbranded pharmaceuticals into the United States for sale via the Internet. The drugs were repackaged and shipped from their facility in Rhode Island.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) reported on March 13th that two Rhode Island men, Edmond Paolucci, and Patrick Cunningham have pleaded guilty to receiving, repackaging and shipping steroids and misbranded prescription drugs to Internet customers who placed orders with the Israel-based Internet pharmacy.
Read MoreCounterfeit HIV Medication: Profitable for Criminals but Dangerous for Patients In 2011, the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA) discovered that counterfeit versions of an HIV treatment had infiltrated the secure pharmaceutical market in the United Kingdom. The drug, called Truvada, is a combination HIV therapy that had been unwittingly introduced into Europe’s drug supply chain by a…
Read MoreCounterfeit Cancer Drugs Are A Big Money Maker for Fake Drug Criminals In February 2012, The US Food and Drug Administration sent out what would turn out to be the first of three different warnings about a counterfeit version of the cancer treatment Avastin having infiltrated the secure US supply chain.1 As of June 2012, 134 doctors in 28 states…
Read MoreInternet Savvy Seniors Need to be Savvy About the Threat of Counterfeit Drugs The Internet is becoming a very familiar place to shop and spend time for seniors, according to the most recent report by Pew. They discovered that 57% of Internet users over 65 are interested in dealing with their healthcare via the Internet.1 There is concern in some…
Read MoreCounterfeit Diabetes Treatments Show Up All Over the Globe In late 2006, the US Food and Drug Administration initiated a class one recall of counterfeit OneTouch blood glucose test strips. Over 1 million counterfeit OneTouch test strips had turned up all over the United States. In citing the reasons for the recall, the FDA stated, “These counterfeit test strips could…
Read MoreView larger map Christopher Carstens, an Alton Illinois businessman, has been charged with nine counts in federal court related to his sales of counterfeit Botox and Juviderm through his company, Orthopaedic Soultions, Inc. It is alleged that Carstens distributed approximately 5,879 units of foreign versions of Botox and Juvederm via his sales representatives to doctors and health care professionals in…
Read MoreIn August 2007, Chinese national Kevin Xu was charged with distributing counterfeit and misbranded pharmaceuticals in the United States via the Internet.1The investigation of his crimes and his arrest in the U.S. came on the heels of one of the largest counterfeit drug recalls ever conducted in the United Kingdom.2 All told, 2 million doses of counterfeit medications used to…
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