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The South Dakota Board of Pharmacy voted Monday to take action against a Sioux Falls company that helps consumers buy drugs from Canada. KELLY HILDEBRANDT Published: 05/3/05 Read the full story at argusleader.com.

STANTON, Ky. — A Powell County man's arrest last year provided police with a crucial clue as to why prescription narcotic abuse in Eastern Kentucky was surging again. By Alan Maimon Monday, May 2, 2005 Read the full story at courier-journal.com.

Answer: Two types exist: Online pharmacies that fill prescriptions issued by doctors not affiliated with the pharmacy and online pharmacies that employ one or more doctors who prescribe drugs that the pharmacy then ships. Monday, May 2, 2005 Read the full story at courier-journal.com.

HONG KONG (AP) – Hong Kong authorities have seized 236 fake Viagra and Cialis sexual performance pills from local pharmacies and arrested eight people, the government said Sunday. Sunday May 1, 2005 Read the full story at thestar.com.

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's (D) I-Save-Rx prescription drug program, launched in October 2004, came under attack on several fronts in March. Diane Carol Bast May 1, 2005 Read the full story at heartland.org.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the United States Attorney for the District of Utah are announcing a series of indictments today against multiple prescription drug distributors whose illegal distribution of diverted drugs could affect the safety and efficacy of more than 40 medications purchased by consumers in over 80 pharmacies nationwide. Read the…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A company pleaded guilty Wednesday to selling phony, and potentially tainted, surgical mesh, at least some of which wound up in patients. UPDATED: 7:07 am EDT April 28, 2005 Read the full story at local10.com.

The fate of a company that helps people buy prescription drugs from Canada is in the hands of the South Dakota Board of Pharmacy. KELLY HILDEBRANDT 04/28/05 Read the full story at argusleader.com.

Someone once asked Nobel laureate physicist Riccardo Giacconi, who conceived the Hubble telescope, why so many great European scientists moved to America. "A scientist is like a painter," Mr. Giacconi said. "Michelangelo became a great artist, because he had been given a wall to paint. My wall was given to me by the United States."…

NOGALES, Mexico — The walk across the border from Nogales, Ariz., to Nogales, Mexico, takes less than a minute. The Mexican side has a media nickname, "Pill City." The first thing you notice is the Viagra signs in the dozens of pharmacies that line the closest streets to the border. But we want steroids. Specifically…