London Free Press.   A bogus heart drug allegedly dispensed at a Hamilton pharmacy may have played a role in the deaths of four of its customers, but authorities said yesterday they can't say for sure. A now completed coroner's investigation began in June after a patient using the pharmacy reported an oddly coloured pill in her supply of Norvasc, a…

Director – General of National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Dora Akunyili has been named sole recipient of the 2005 Grassroot Human Rights Campaigner award by a London-based Human Rights Defense Organization. She thus becomes the first African to win the award. By Adeze Ojukwu October 5, 2005 Read the full story at allafrica.com.

Many people order medications through the mail. But high temperatures in delivery trucks and airplanes can affect how well those medications work. October 5, 2005 Read the full story at wcsh6.com.

A greedy Manhattan gang bought cut-rate prescription drugs from the sick and desperate – then sold the black-market meds to pharmacies across the state, the Daily News has learned. By Alison Gendar October 4, 2005 Read the full story at nydailynews.com.

For more than a year, the Montgomery County Council has been trying to figure out a way to promote the importation of cheap prescription drugs from Canada for use by thousands of county employees and retirees. And for more than a year, the council has been given legal opinions saying that to do so would be prohibited by federal law.…

SPRINGFIELD — A controversial plan to connect Illinoisans with low-priced prescription drugs from outside of the United States has not drawn huge numbers of participants. By Kurt Erickson October 4, 2005 Read the full story at pantagraph.com.

Details emerging in the fake drug scandal indicate that a Congolese company based in Bunia, Northeastern Congo, supplied the batch of antibiotics currently under investigation. Frank Nyakairu & Zurah Nakabugo October 1, 2005 Read the full story at allafrica.com.

The former office manager for a Crafton pharmacist under indictment for selling drugs without prescriptions pleaded guilty yesterday to health care fraud and tax evasion. By Torsten Ove October 1, 2005 Read the full story at post-gazette.com.

Andrew von Eschenbach, the director of the National Cancer Institute, who last week took on the added duties of acting Food and Drug Administration commissioner after the abrupt resignation of Commissioner Lester M. Crawford, said yesterday that he will temporarily step down from his day-to-day leadership of the cancer institute. By Rick Weiss October 1, 2005 Read the full story…

Washington- Doctors and pharmacists have been warned that mix-ups in prescriptions of three drugs with similar names but vastly different effects have led to serious health problems. By the Associated Press September 28, 2005 Read the full story at cleveland.com.