Archive for 2015
Is Your Oncologist Using Unsafe Black Market Cancer Drugs?
The FDA has been prosecuting doctors and unlicensed drug distributors for importing non-FDA approved cancer drugs. Some of those drugs have been counterfeits. Learn more about how to detect counterfeit medication by reading our 8-Step Checklist For Medicine Safety and about recent counterfeit cancer drug prosecutions by reading PSM’s Black Market Cancer Drug Cases, 2007-2013.
[...]5 Secrets Canadian Pharmacies Don’t Want You to Know
Aren’t Canadian medicines ordered online as safe as ours? Well, no. Buying medicines from online pharmacies that claim to be selling Canadian drugs is dangerous.
[...]Nationwide Epidemic of Counterfeit Pain Pills Containing Fentanyl Claims Lives in 23 States
On October 23, 2015, the San Francisco Department of Public Health released an urgent warning concerning deadly fentanyl disguised as the low-level anti-anxiety medication Xanax. 3 people in San Francisco died as a result of consuming the fentanyl-laced pills. Since that time there have been reported deaths and overdoses attributable to the fake pills in…
[...]Drug Smuggling Charge Against Ram Kamath Dropped
Ram Kamath has had a single charge of smuggling dropped and is now cooperating with the authorities. Kamath was one of 14 people charged in the case USA vs. CanadaDrugs. Kamath had been accused of participating in the international drug smuggling conspiracy allegedly perpetrated by CanadaDrugs.
[...]Texas Oncologist Sues Drug Counterfeiter for Selling Him Fake Drugs
Dr. Mohamad Ayman Ghraowi has filed suit against Canada Drugs subsidiaries Montana Healthcare Solutions and Rockeley Ventures, for supplying his practice with counterfeit cancer medication, the Courthouse News Service (CNS) reports.
[...]FDA Moves to Destroy Counterfeit & Misbranded Medications Shipped into the U.S.
A change to current laws allows the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to destroy misbranded medications blocked from entering the United States. Prior to this, the FDA was forced to return such drugs to the shipper.
[...]Saint Louis Doctor Sentenced For Illegally Importing Non-FDA Approved Medications, Defrauding Patients
A Missouri doctor was sentenced for misbranded drugs charges and his Patterson Medical Clinic was sentenced for false statements charges on September 2nd, 2015 related to the purchases of non-FDA approved osteoporosis treatments. Both the doctor and his clinic face 3 years probation.
[...]Don’t Risk Your Safety with Medicines with Unsafe Sources
Medicine approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) comprehensive drug approval process are considered the safest in the world. The U.S.’s closed distribution system keeps medicine counterfeiters and fakers out of pharmacies and away from patients. Medicines in countries without the systemic oversight of an agency like the FDA suffer from pervasive counterfeit…
[...]TF Supplements Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Dietary Supplements with Undeclared Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
This is a reprint of an FDA Alert. Recall — Firm Press Release FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company. Contact: Consumer: 866-620-3586 Media: 866-620-3586…
[...]Lucy’s Weight Loss System Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Pink Bikini and Shorts on The Beach Due to Undeclared Sibutramine and Phenolphthalein
This is a reprint of an FDA Alert. Recall — Firm Press Release FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company. Contact: Consumer: 682-308-0199 pbfitme@gmail.com FOR…
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