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In San Diego, two people fell gravely ill after receiving black-market silicone injections to plump up their faces. In Salinas, Calif., a woman died after receiving a supposed Botox injection that was actually cooking oil And in Miami, a group of people who thought they were getting Botox became paralyzed after a different, highly concentrated form of the deadly botulinum…
Read MoreRancho Cucamonga drug maker Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc. will "go live" July 1 with a system designed to track products' paths to hospitals and other end customers. The system consists of software, shipping documents and barcodes that provide specific product information to verify that products originated from Amphastar. By DARLA MARTIN TUCKER25 June 2006 Read the full story at thebizpress.com.
Read MoreTrading standards officers have warned people could end up with harmful fakes if they buy prescription drugs over the Internet. The officers have been buying drugs such as Viagra, Tamiflu, Prozac and Valium from foreign websites, but some have turned out to be bogus or contaminated. By Andrew French23 June 2006 Read the full story at oxfordmail.net.
Read MoreGovernor Peter Obi of Anambra State has pleaded with NAFDAC not to close down the multi-billion naira drugs market in the commercial city of Onitsha. NAFDAC accused traders at the market of trading on fake and adulterated drugs and threatened last week to seal up the market and rid the market of such drugs. 23 June 2006 Read the full…
Read MoreThank you, Mr. Figg, for that introduction. I thank the ABA Section on Intellectual Property Law for arranging my presentation, and I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you today. Two hundred and fifty billion dollars in annual losses, and seven hundred and fifty thousand lost jobs. These are among the many costs of intellectual property theft to American businesses and families.…
Read MoreThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently announced it was moving ahead with rules that will allow tracking of individual drugs from factory to pharmacy. That may surprise consumers who assumed such a system was already in place. A 1988 federal law required drug tracking, but the FDA didn't draft rules until 1999; then they were placed on hold. The…
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