NHS patients face fake drug risk


Patients are being put at risk as counterfeiters target the NHS supply chain with fake drugs, regulators say.

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) warned it is investigating twice as many counterfeit cases as it was five years ago.
The growth in fake drugs is said to be driven by huge demand for lifestyle medicines such as Viagra.

2 January 2007

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