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Bejon Misra, FounderThe Partnership for Safe Medicines India With 80-90% of anti-malarial and anti-retro viral drugs world wide produced in India, Indian officials and manufacturers are combining efforts to crack down on spurious medicine producers that kill 100,000 people in Africa annually . Paul Lavlani, Dean of the Empower School of Health, says that $5bn…
Indianapolis reporter Rafael Sanchez reports that bargain medications purchased online don’t come with a “danger disclaimer.” Reporting for 6News Indianapolis, Sanchez spoke with the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy executive director Carmen Catizone, about the risks involved with purchasing medications from unlicensed fake pharmacies online. Said Catizone, “We found rat poison, lead paint, [and]…
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The Partnership for Safe Medicines (PSM) released a new report this week, A Risky Proposition: How Opening the U.S. to Foreign Medicines Poses a Risk to Chronically Ill Americans, detailing the dangers posed to American patients by opening up the secure and safe U.S. medical supply chain to foreign drugs through importation. We released this latest…
Listening to the thought leaders of safe medicinesat the 2010 Interchange Jeremiah Mwangi, Policy and External Affairs Director of International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations (IAPO), will sit on “The Role of Patients and Healthcare Professionals” panel at 1:45pm at the Partnership for Safe Medicine’s Interchange on October 27, 2011 at the National Press Club in…
The Partnership for Safe Medicines applauded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its week-long effort to curb sales of medicines and medical devices from rogue online operators, dubbed OPERATION PANGEA IV.
Kaho Kwok, PhD at Purdue University, College of Pharmacy has received a $50,000 fellowship from the United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) for the study of Raman spectroscopy used in counterfeit medication analysis.