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Our #covidscams bookmark educates patients about five kinds of online crime that have spiked since the pandemic. Download a copy for yourself and visit our covid-19 scams tracking page to catch up on the news.
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PSM is still monitoring public reports of dangerous counterfeit medical supplies and treatments. Here’s a quick round-up of counterfeit news published the week May 11, 2020.
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Last week PSM asked Congress to help protect the public from online COVID-19 scams by requiring domain name sellers to suspend and lock websites that facilitate health fraud and re-opening registration information so that law enforcement can pursue criminals using websites to take advantage of the public.
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As we’ve focused these last few weeks on COVID-19 scams related to medicine and medical supplies, however, another population of scammers has been exploiting Americans. This week we’re calling out financially-focused covidscams, which comprise a large part of the $13.4 million that U.S. citizens have lost to fraud since the beginning of the year.
Read MoreThe following policy resolution was passed unanimously at the May 8, 2020 Advisory Board meeting: The Partnership for Safe Medicines believes that counterfeit medical devices are dangerous to American patients and that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should have the unequivocal power to seize and destroy these dangerous products whether they are found in interstate commerce or in…
Read MoreThis is a reprint of an FDA Alert. When a company announces a recall, market withdrawal, or safety alert, the FDA posts the company’s announcement as a public service. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company. May 11, 2020 Company Contact Information Consumers: Lin Leung, MasterPharm, LLC Phone: (866) 630-5600 Email: recall@masterpharm.com Company Announcement MasterPharm, LLC. is…
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PSM is still monitoring public reports of dangerous counterfeit medical supplies and treatments. Here’s a quick round-up of counterfeit news published the week May 4, 2020.
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Law enforcement is encountering problems kicking COVID-19 scammers offline. Learn how, and how we can fix it.
Read MoreThis research paper (available here in pdf form), which was published in Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research in March 2020. State Pharmaceutical Importation Programmes: an Analysis of the Cost‐Effectiveness Author: Dr. Kristina M.L. Acri née Lybecker, Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute and Associate Professor of Economics at Colorado College in Colorado Springs Abstract: This article examines the cost‐effectiveness of…
Read MoreResearch Study Confirms That Cheap And Safe Drug Importation Is Not Feasible Read the abstract for Dr. Acri’s article. In March 2020, the Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, an official journal of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, published a study by Dr. Kristina M.L. Acri née Lybecker titled “State Pharmaceutical Importation Programmes: An Analysis of the Cost-effectiveness.” In the paper,…
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