Posts Tagged ‘East Asia’
Fake Drugs Create a Bitter Pill for Patients Overseas
In February 2005, a 23-year-old Burmese man checked into a rural hospital in East Burma with a fairly ordinary case of malaria. The hospital gave him the usual treatment — artesunate pills, a medicine heralded as a miracle cure for its speed in treating the disease. Three days later, he slipped into a coma. Within…
[...]Fake Viagras abound, NBI warns
The National Bureau of Investigation yesterday warned the public on the proliferation of counterfeit medicines in the local market following the seizure of fake Viagra and Norvasc from several drugstores in Metro Manila, Southern Luzon and Northern Luzon in separate operations. Viagra and Norvasc are both Pfizer prescription drugs. NBI Intellectual Property Rights Division Chief…
[...]Cheap prescription drugs on-line – BAD MEDICINE
Any Malaysian with an e-mail account would have had the displeasure of receiving e-mail with such headings or similar ones in their inbox. Most of us would normally mark it as spam and banish it to the trash folder, never to be seen again. But not all of us do. An increasing number of Malaysians,…
[...]Drug pirates leave death in their wake
No one will ever know how many Chinese men — and women — were sexually satisfied after taking the American Number One, Male Exclusive, Great Big Brother pills sold by Xi Yongli. When the product was raised in court recently, it was not its potency that was on trial. Rather, it was the legality of…
[...]Women risk lives to buy abortion drug over internet
UP to 10 Australian women have illegally bought the controversial abortion pill RU486 over the internet, despite warnings they are putting their lives at risk. A South Australian woman is also among those considering purchasing the drug online, after finding the product available for about $US65 (about $85) from an international website. By Laura Anderson20…
[...]Viagra not working? It may be a counterfeit
The Health Ministry has found that more than half of the counterfeit drugs seized were sold as sex stimulants or Viagra. Fake drugs with a face value of RM16 million were seized over the past 10 months. Ministry Pharmaceutical Services Division principal assistant director Ahmad Nozrin Taharin said they were mainly sold through direct sales.…
[...]New Zealand scientist warns of fake drugs
WELLINGTON: A New Zealand scientist warned on Wednesday of sophisticated Asian-based rackets producing billions of fake medicines that kill thousands of people every year. Dallas Mildenhall said some of the counterfeit pills not only lacked the proper ingredients to treat illnesses such as malaria but contained carcinogens, solvents and even remains of insects. 25 October…
[...]Pharma firms fret over sophisticated fake medicines
Foreign pharmaceutical companies attending the meeting said they were finding it difficult to detect copycat drugs due to the increasingly enhanced technology of faking medicine. Sanofi, a Vietnam-based French pharmaceutical company, has petitioned the Vietnam Health Ministry, citing two of its medicines that were counterfeited in the local market. 19 October 2006 Read the full…
[...]EU, China monitoring seaports to counter surge in fake drugs – report
BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) – The European Union and China have started monitoring major seaports including Rotterdam and Shenzhen for counterfeit pharmaceuticals, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing EU Taxation and Customs Commissioner Laszlo Kovacs. European customs have seized fake drugs ranging from antimalarials to vitamin supplements, the report said. 16 October 2006 Read the full story…
[...]Medicine counterfeiters arrested
Customs officers have arrested eight people, shutting down a syndicate producing, packaging and distributing counterfeit Chinese cough medicine. They raided a manufacturing site and a distribution company in two factory buildings in Kwai Chung, and three dispensaries in Sham Shui Po and Yau Ma Tei. 06 October 2006 Read the full story at news.gov.hk.
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