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As a result of intensive investigations conducted by MHRA investigators, several addresses across the country (both residential and commercial) were today visited. Several hundred thousand pounds worth of what are believed to be counterfeit and illegal drugs were seized, including lifestyle medicines and steroids. Documentation, computers and banking records were also taken. The searches were carried out in North London,…
Read More(Kyodo) _ A Japanese man was arrested Monday in Gardena, California, on federal charges of trafficking and selling counterfeit Viagra and other fake pharmaceuticals purchased from China, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Masaru Yamasato, 44, was arrested by the FDA's Office of Criminal Investigation and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following a nearly eighth-month investigation, said federal prosecutor…
Read MoreInvestigadores mdicos informan que una medicina falsificada contra la malaria est circulando por el sureste de Asia, y podra extenderse a frica. Un documento publicado en un informe mdico en Internet seala que un hombre, de 23 aos, en Birmania que result infectado con malaria, muri debido a que la medicina que recibi era falsificada. 13 June 2006 Read the…
Read MoreA 23-year old man in Burma with malaria died because the medicine he received was fake, according to an investigative report by an international team of researchers published in PLoS Medicine. The patient went to a rural hospital in East Burma with a fever and was diagnosed as having a straightforward case of falciparum malaria. He was treated with the…
Read MoreINTERIOR and Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno has directed regional officials of the interior department and the Philippine National Police (PNP) to join forces with the health department and different local government leagues in cracking down hard on syndicates behind the proliferation of fake medicines in the market. Puno stressed the need to choke the supply of counterfeit drugs in…
Read MoreBritish researchers say they have found a way to shield healthy bone marrow cells from dangerous radiation during cancer treatments, the BBC reports. Writing in the latest issue of the Journal of Gene Medicine, scientists from Manchester University's Paterson Institute for Cancer Research say they have developed a genetic technique that stimulates bone marrow stem cells to make more of…
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