A U.S. Superior Court judge has slapped an Internet spam gang that operated from two locations, one near Boston, the other in Russia, with $37 million in penalties for running dozens of illegal sites peddling counterfeit drugs, pirated software and pornography, the Boston Herald daily reported. October 12, 2005 Read the full story at MosNews.com.

Irish people will die if nothing is done to stop the Europe-wide increase in the sale of counterfeit drugs, an expert on pharmaceutical fraud warned yesterday. New research shows one in five Irish people have discovered that on purchase their medicine leaflets are missing, seals are broken or the medicine is contained in foreign packaging, all signs that the chemist…

East Standard.com The Government too has been a soft target for fake drug dealers. Previously swindlers have been supplying bogus products, winning huge tenders as the effects are turned to ordinary Kenyans. October 11, 2005 Read the full story at Eaststandard.net. ]

Reuters.   Swiss drug maker Roche urged consumers on Friday not to buy its flu drug Tamiflu over the Internet to avoid the risk of purchasing potentially counterfeit pills as they build stockpiles in case of a bird flu pandemic. Tom Armitage October 10, 2005 Read the full story at Reuters.com.

London Free Press.   A bogus heart drug allegedly dispensed at a Hamilton pharmacy may have played a role in the deaths of four of its customers, but authorities said yesterday they can't say for sure. A now completed coroner's investigation began in June after a patient using the pharmacy reported an oddly coloured pill in her supply of Norvasc, a…

Director – General of National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Dora Akunyili has been named sole recipient of the 2005 Grassroot Human Rights Campaigner award by a London-based Human Rights Defense Organization. She thus becomes the first African to win the award. By Adeze Ojukwu October 5, 2005 Read the full story at allafrica.com.

Many people order medications through the mail. But high temperatures in delivery trucks and airplanes can affect how well those medications work. October 5, 2005 Read the full story at wcsh6.com.

A greedy Manhattan gang bought cut-rate prescription drugs from the sick and desperate – then sold the black-market meds to pharmacies across the state, the Daily News has learned. By Alison Gendar October 4, 2005 Read the full story at nydailynews.com.

For more than a year, the Montgomery County Council has been trying to figure out a way to promote the importation of cheap prescription drugs from Canada for use by thousands of county employees and retirees. And for more than a year, the council has been given legal opinions saying that to do so would be prohibited by federal law.…