Archive for April 2005

THE WAY to reduce prices of medicines in the Philippines is not through parallel importation but through the strict implementation of the generics law. April 15, 2005 By Tessa Salazar, Inquirer News Service Read the full story at news.inq7.net.

As the cost of prescription drugs continues to climb, more Americans are looking at online pharmacies for ways to cut costs. By Teresa McUsic, Special to the Star-Telegram Posted on Fri, Apr. 15, 2005 Read the full story at dfw.com.

BATON ROUGE — A poll of 400 Louisianans over age 60 shows they don't trust importation of prescription drugs from some foreign countries, regardless of the savings. By Mike Hasten April 14, 2005 Read the full story at shreveporttimes.com.

Vienna, 14 April (AKI) – The illicit trade of controlled drugs through the Internet needs to be combated to thwart the increasing risk of misuse of such substances by children and adolescents, the UN World Health Organisation (WHO), International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol), Universal Postal Union (UPU) and Council of Europe warned on Thursday, in…

WASHINGTON, D.C. ­ With a hearing looming on his drug importation bill, U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., is scoffing at a new poll showing that 69 percent of American seniors oppose importing prescription medicine. Wednesday, April 13, 2005 By JILL SCHRAMM, Staff Writer Read the full story at .com.

Apr. 8, 2005 – Cardinal Health Inc. on Friday said it received a subpoena from New York state's attorney general as part of a broad industry probe into a segment of the drug wholesaling industry. Reuters Read the full story at abcnews.go.com.

A couple who own a pharmacy were under arrest and facing a lawsuit from the Florida Attorney General's Office on Thursday on charges they concocted homemade medication and passed it off as drugs to treat cystic fibrosis. Published Friday, April 8, 2005 Read the full story at theledger.com.

Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist has filed the state's first legal action under the state's nine-month-old Anti-Spam law, accusing two former Fort Lauderdale residents who now live in Tampa of running a bogus email and internet operation responsible for more than 65,000 illegal emails. April 6, 2005 Read the full story at consumeraffairs.com.

Staffordshire police swooped on illegal traders at a car boot sale on Sunday, seizing 20,000 fake game discs with an estimated street value of more than half a million pounds. Ellie Gibson 06/04/2005 Read the full story at gamesindustry.biz.

One New York man recovering from a liver transplant discovered the Epogen he purchased at a drugstore was a fake — containing one-twentieth of the prescribed active ingredient. A California AIDS patient found that his human growth hormone prescription was counterfeit after reporting to his pharmacist that the injection left a burning sensation. By Don…