Archive for 2005
Targeting Phony Pharmaceuticals
(CBS) A sobering book out Monday says your prescription drugs may not be safe. May 9, 2005 Read the full story at cbsnews.com.
[...]Importation & Reimportation of Prescription Drugs
Recently, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held that the FDC Act, along with the Medicare Prescription Drugs, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA), do not violate the substantive due process rights of U.S. citizens by prohibiting the purchase of prescription drugs from Canada (U.S. v. Andrews, 2005). Read the full story at…
[...]Potential Danger Could Lurk In Your Medicine Cabinet
(CBS 2) Are the prescription drugs in your house safe? From misleading labels to recycled pills a new book opens up the trouble that could be lurking in your medicine cabinet. CBS 2's Dorothy Tucker has more on these potential dangerous doses. May 9, 2005 Read the full story at cbs2chicago.com.
[...]Partnership for Safe Medicines Says New Book Reveals How Counterfeit Drugs Enter and Compromise America’s Drug Supply
Not what the doctor ordered
In the past few months, experts on prescription drugs warned us about heart attacks and strokes from arthritis drugs, muscle damage and kidney failure from statin drugs, and suicide and homicidal tendencies from psychotropic drugs. Catherine DeAngelis, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, commented on the Food and Drug Administration's program to…
[...]Large Drug Wholesaler to Close Its Secondary Trading Operation
One of the nation's largest pharmaceutical wholesalers, Cardinal Health, is shutting a unit that trades in the secondary drug marketplace, a behind-the-scenes bazaar in which drugs are purchased and resold before finding their way to consumers. By STEPHANIE SAUL Published: May 6, 2005 Read the full story at nytimes.com.
[...]State allows Rx imports from Canada
DES MOINES – Gov. Christine Gregoire signed into law Thursday a bill allowing the importation of prescription drugs from Canada, but the move needs federal approval first, something the governor acknowledged would be a battle. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Friday, May 6, 2005 Read the full story at bellinghamherald.com.
[...]Internet used to fight fake drugs
The World Health Organization (WHO) has unveiled the first internet-based system for tracking fake drugs in Asia. At a conference in the Philippines on Friday, the WHO said that up to 10% of medicine on the global market was fake. The global health body says the illegal trade is worth $35bn a year. Friday, 6…
[...]Fake medications inundate the Russian pharmaceutical market
The problem with fake medications has become very serious on the Russian pharmaceutical market. The Russian Federal Healthcare Supervisory Service has recently put forward a suggestion to introduce a new regulation, which would oblige all pharmaceutical companies to mark their products. 05/04/2005 Read the full story at english.pravda.ru.
[...]Federal warning spurs some N.J. pharmacies to pull drugs from shelves
HACKENSACK, N.J. – Thirteen New Jersey pharmacies are on a nationwide list of 80 that bought prescription drugs from several distributors now under indictment for selling the medications illegally. Associated Press Posted on Sun, May. 01, 2005 Read the full story at philly.com.
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