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Police arrest 17 in alleged fake drugs gang
Police have cracked a ring involving at least 26 people, which they allege has been a major dealer in counterfeit pharmaceuticals in Fuyang City, east China's Anhui Province. In a joint operation with the city's food and drug administration, police arrested 17 alleged members of the ring and seized 339 items of counterfeit drugs worth…
[...]Expired medicine prescribed
KUWAIT: A citizen recently told Kuwait local daily, Al-Anba, that when he took his sick baby son to the paediatric department at Farwaniya hospital he was prescribed cough syrup by the hospital's pharmacy that had expired over two months earlier. The man said he could not believe his eyes as he got the medicine from…
[...]Multiple arrests & counterfeit seizures
As a result of intensive investigations conducted by MHRA investigators, several addresses across the country (both residential and commercial) were today visited. Several hundred thousand pounds worth of what are believed to be counterfeit and illegal drugs were seized, including lifestyle medicines and steroids. Documentation, computers and banking records were also taken. The searches were…
[...]Japanese arrested for selling counterfeit Viagra, other drugs
(Kyodo) _ A Japanese man was arrested Monday in Gardena, California, on federal charges of trafficking and selling counterfeit Viagra and other fake pharmaceuticals purchased from China, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Masaru Yamasato, 44, was arrested by the FDA's Office of Criminal Investigation and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following a nearly…
[...]Investigacin: Medicina falsificada contra la malaria circula en Sureste de Asia
Investigadores mdicos informan que una medicina falsificada contra la malaria est circulando por el sureste de Asia, y podra extenderse a frica. Un documento publicado en un informe mdico en Internet seala que un hombre, de 23 aos, en Birmania que result infectado con malaria, muri debido a que la medicina que recibi era falsificada.…
[...]Fake malaria drug implicated in Burmese man’s death
A 23-year old man in Burma with malaria died because the medicine he received was fake, according to an investigative report by an international team of researchers published in PLoS Medicine. The patient went to a rural hospital in East Burma with a fever and was diagnosed as having a straightforward case of falciparum malaria.…
[...]Interior execs, police ordered to help in anti-fake drugs drive
INTERIOR and Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno has directed regional officials of the interior department and the Philippine National Police (PNP) to join forces with the health department and different local government leagues in cracking down hard on syndicates behind the proliferation of fake medicines in the market. Puno stressed the need to choke the…
[...]Genetic ‘Shield’ Guards Against Damaging Effects of Radiation Therapy
British researchers say they have found a way to shield healthy bone marrow cells from dangerous radiation during cancer treatments, the BBC reports. Writing in the latest issue of the Journal of Gene Medicine, scientists from Manchester University's Paterson Institute for Cancer Research say they have developed a genetic technique that stimulates bone marrow stem…
[...]FDA Announces New Measures to Protect Americans from Counterfeit Drugs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced new steps to strengthen existing protections against the growing problem of counterfeit drugs. The measures, which were recommended in a report released today by the agency's Counterfeit Drug Task Force, emphasize certain regulatory actions and the use of new technologies for safeguarding the integrity of the…
[...]Fake Generic Viagra Site Using Google Name
The site by ED Choice, which sells generic versions of drugs like Viagra, Levitra and Cialis (none of which exist in what I like to call "the real world"), features a Google logo with the "o"s replaced by two li'l Viagra pills, as well as this text: We've just launched a pharmaceutical interface for Google,…
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