New Report Warns 14 Types of Counterfeit Artesunate are Circulating in SE Asia The Wellcome Trust recently updated its report on counterfeit Artesunate, an anti-malarial medicine made by Guilin Pharma. Although Artesunate bears a hologram for security, multiple counterfeit forms of this hologram have been discovered and identified. According to the report’s author: “Although, regrettably, the counterfeiters have targeted…

Many compelling reasons present themselves to oppose the spread of counterfeit drugs. Fakes represent theft of millions upon millions of dollars of value, undermine international protection of intellectual property, and its damage often redounds — unjustly — to pharmaceutical companies. And counterfeits kill. This article in The American, the magazine of the American Enterprise Institute, documents the death that counterfeits…

Four years after the discovery of counterfeit Lipitor led to the biggest drug recall in U.S. history, the world's top pharmaceutical companies are experimenting with new technologies to battle a rising tide of phony drugs that are making their way into medicine cabinets. Fake medicines are a $32 billion global business, according to the World Health Organization, and the Food…