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Patients are being put at risk as counterfeiters target the NHS supply chain with fake drugs, regulators say. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) warned it is investigating twice as many counterfeit cases as it was five years ago. The growth in fake drugs is said to be driven by huge demand for lifestyle medicines such as Viagra.…
Read More(New York, NY)-Four defendants have been charged with drug distribution, money laundering and tax fraud. The joint investigation leading to the charges was conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration, Internal Revenue Service and the US Marshals Service. Four of the defendants were arrested on December 21, 2006 in Miami, Florida; Antonio Quinones, Jose Lopez, Herman Quinones and Michael Depinillos. This…
Read MoreL'Agence Fdrale des Mdicaments et des Produits de Sant (AFMPS) met en garde contre "la circulation d'une contrefaon du mdicament LEVITRA", en comprims de 20 mg. Le mdicament est disponible via internet et est utilis dans le traitement des troubles de l'rection. L'Agence a t avertie d'un dfaut de qualit via le Rapid Alert System europen. 22 December 2006 Read…
Read More(NewsTarget) Doctors around the world have used a Chinese herbal drug — artemisinin — to effectively treat malaria since the 1960s, but recent supply shortages have sparked production of dangerous counterfeits, according to World Health Organization (WHO) officials. Li Guiqiao, a professor at the Tropical Medicine Institute at Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said he first used artemisinin on…
Read MoreBEIJING, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Chinese authorities have closed down a factory producing fake birth-control pills out of starch and glucose and arrested one person, media reports said on Monday. Tests by the Food and Drug Administration on the southern island of Hainan found not only that the pills were useless in preventing pregnancy but also contained toxic ingredients, the…
Read MoreTwenty five children were hospitalized late on Thursday after taking expired pills at a boarding school in Russia's southwestern Voronezh region, local authorities said on Friday. According to Voronezh's chief sanitary inspector Mikhail Chubirko, the 25 children felt unwell after they took "Isoniazid" and "Heksavit" pills at supper and were then rushed to hospitals. Three of them suffered heavy allergic…
Read MoreBhopal, Dec 14 (IANS) Terming it as a 'citizens raid', Bhopal gas tragedy survivors' organisations claimed to have seized a large number of sub-standard and expired drugs from two medical stores of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department. 'A joint team of four organisations, working for the victims of the world's worst man-made industrial disaster, recovered many medicines…
Read MoreHong Kong – Li Guoqiao was a village doctor in China's southwestern Yunnan province in 1974 when the government asked him to try using an herbal drug, artemisinin, to treat malaria patients. What followed was one of China's first clinical trials using the herb, and the results were startling. All 18 patients felt better within hours and recovered a few…
Read MoreMumbai, Dec 10: Concerned over rampant circulation of fake drugs in the global market, India's apex drug control body has taken the matter to the World Health Organisation as it seriously affected the public health in the country. "The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has begun talks with the World Health Organisation (WHO) over counterfeit products," Drugs Controller General…
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