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Oklahoma authorities make 3 arrests in online pharmacy case

March 13, 2008
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State authorities have arrested three people from Grove they say are connected with an Internet pharmacy in Delaware County. County drug task force officers arrested Randolph Earl Enyart, 45; Kristina Donohoe, 25; and Tammy Walker, 37. The alleged operator of the pharmacy, Norman Edward Enyart Jr., also known as J.R. Enyart, is expected to surrender, authorities said. 12 March 2008…

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Meeting of the Minds

March 11, 2008
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Bryan A. Liang, MD, PhD, JD

It's an interesting phenomenon.  We have general agreement that fake medicines put people in harms way – but an increasing number of these drugs are entering the world's markets.  In fact, the World Health Organization estimates that up to 10 percent of all medicines are counterfeits, rising to 25 percent in some countries.

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Kenya tackles drug counterfeiting

March 8, 2008
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Sierra Leone: Fake Drugs Intercepted in Kono

March 7, 2008
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Police personnel at Motema police station yesterday arrested a driver with four cartons of assorted pharmaceutical drugs at Mambodu junction in Kono district. Mustapha Kamara and his vehicle with registration number ADA 262 was stopped by the police for searching when the drugs were discovered. Kamara was being led to the station when a passenger on board the vehicle, Abu…

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Authorities say they see link between pharmacy, eight deaths

March 6, 2008
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Rights watch raises concern over President Jammeh’s HIV/AIDS “cure”

March 5, 2008
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Dakar, Senegal – The United Nations and its member states are failing to address serious threats to life and health posed by the promotion of unproven AIDS 'cures' and by counterfeit antiretroviral drugs," a global rights body, Human Rights Watch, stated in a recently released dossier. In the dossier, titled "Dangerous medicines: Unproven AIDS cures and counterfeit antiretroviral drugs" released…

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AmCham expresses concerns about illegal, counterfeit drugs

March 4, 2008
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — "A lot of illegal and counterfeit drugs are being sold on the Taiwan market," said Jeffrey Harris, managing director of Orient Commercial Enquiries, "and this poses a clear and present health danger to Taiwanese consumers." Harris made the remarks at an American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei Intellectual Property and Licensing Committee luncheon held at the Grand…

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The Net and Prescription Drugs

March 3, 2008
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Nigeria: Campaign On Danger of Fake Drugs Kicks-Off in Jabi Motor Park

February 29, 2008
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The evil of fake drugs have been described as worse than the combined scourge of malaria, HIV/AIDS and armed robbery put together because they can be prevented or they kill few at a time but fake drugs kill en mass. Secretary of the FCT Task Force on Counterfeit and Fake Drugs, Hajia Hauwa Kulu Ibrahim, made the disclosure at a…

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Blood Thinner Might Be Tied to More Deaths

February 29, 2008
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