Archive for March 2008
Oklahoma authorities make 3 arrests in online pharmacy case
State authorities have arrested three people from Grove they say are connected with an Internet pharmacy in Delaware County. County drug task force officers arrested Randolph Earl Enyart, 45; Kristina Donohoe, 25; and Tammy Walker, 37. The alleged operator of the pharmacy, Norman Edward Enyart Jr., also known as J.R. Enyart, is expected to surrender,…
[...]Meeting of the Minds
It's an interesting phenomenon. We have general agreement that fake medicines put people in harms way – but an increasing number of these drugs are entering the world's markets. In fact, the World Health Organization estimates that up to 10 percent of all medicines are counterfeits, rising to 25 percent in some countries.
[...]Sierra Leone: Fake Drugs Intercepted in Kono
Police personnel at Motema police station yesterday arrested a driver with four cartons of assorted pharmaceutical drugs at Mambodu junction in Kono district. Mustapha Kamara and his vehicle with registration number ADA 262 was stopped by the police for searching when the drugs were discovered. Kamara was being led to the station when a passenger…
[...]Rights watch raises concern over President Jammeh’s HIV/AIDS “cure”
Dakar, Senegal – The United Nations and its member states are failing to address serious threats to life and health posed by the promotion of unproven AIDS 'cures' and by counterfeit antiretroviral drugs," a global rights body, Human Rights Watch, stated in a recently released dossier. In the dossier, titled "Dangerous medicines: Unproven AIDS cures…
[...]AmCham expresses concerns about illegal, counterfeit drugs
TAIPEI, Taiwan — "A lot of illegal and counterfeit drugs are being sold on the Taiwan market," said Jeffrey Harris, managing director of Orient Commercial Enquiries, "and this poses a clear and present health danger to Taiwanese consumers." Harris made the remarks at an American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei Intellectual Property and Licensing Committee…
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