Archive for 2007
PSF-CI en gure contre la contrefaon
(Le Quotidien du pharmacien, Les Echos – 22 mars 2007) L'association Pharmaciens sans frontires Comit international (PSF-CI), qui a annonc le transfert de son sige de Clermont-Ferrand Bordeaux, vient de lancer sa campagne d'adhsion 2007 et espre atteindre le millier d'adhrents, contre 635 en 2006. Cette anne, son action sera axe sur "le combat contre…
[...]RM14 Mln Of Fake Sexual Stimulants Seized
PETALING JAYA, March 22 (Bernama) — The Health Ministry seized 1.4 million capsules of fake sexual stimulants worth RM14 million from a container in Penang recently, Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek said Wednesday night. He said the seizure, the biggest so far by the ministry's pharmaceutical enforcement division, was made on March…
[...]Pharmacist, Patient Groups Call for Inquest into B.C. Counterfeit-Pills Death
OTTAWA, March 22 /CNW Telbec/ – A coalition of Canadian pharmacists and patients today called on the Regional Coroner for Vancouver Island to hold an inquest into the death of a British Columbia woman who died apparently after taking counterfeit pills she ordered online from a purported Canadian internet pharmacy. The Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA),…
[...]Canadian Internet Pharmacy Sales to the United States Down 50% in 2006
Year-end data released today by IMS Health, the world's leading provider of market intelligence to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, shows that Canadian internet pharmacy sales to the United States dropped sharply in 2006 compared to 2005. While 2005 sales to the U.S. recorded by Canadian internet pharmacies reached $420 million, 2006 sales declined by…
[...]Online drug sales to the U.S. fell in 2006: report
Online pharmacy sales from Canadian companies to the United States were almost halved in 2006 from a year earlier as Canadian Internet pharmacies felt the pressure from the strength of the loonie, according to a report by IMS Health. The report said online pharmacy sales to the United States fell to $211 million from $420…
[...]FDA raids fake thyroid drug makers in Mumbai
TV watchdog finds fake Viagra pills containing flour and mould
Beijing. March 19. INTERFAX-CHINA – A fake and unapproved health care products ring has been discovered, selling into 17 cities and provinces via the logistic transportation hub of Dafeng city, Jiangsu province, local media reported. Among the cornucopia of fake cures made by the firm it was found it was producing a Viagra-like pill containing…
[...]50 suspects arrested for involvement in drug gang
17 lorry-load of banned drugs recovered from Onitsha market
Fake, banned drugs rampant, admits Vietnam government
A slew of fake and unlicensed medicines were found at hospitals and health centers nationwide last year, the Vietnamese Ministry of Health admitted at a conference last week. In a report at the meeting held in Hanoi, it said dozens of categories of drugs had been faked, mostly in the northern provinces. The most widely…
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