A federal judge sentenced brothers Charles and Patrick Boyd to a combined 38 years in prison for running a nationwide scheme that sold counterfeit and diverted HIV medications to U.S. pharmacies.
For a pretty dead policy idea, bulk drug importation has had a lot of news lately. Get the update!
federal judge in Florida sentenced Charles and Patrick Boyd to a cumulative 38 years in prison. The brothers owned Safe Chain Solutions, a Cambridge, Maryland-based drug distributor at the center of a diversion ring that endangered the health of American patients by selling U.S. pharmacies over 85,00 counterfeit bottles of secondhand HIV medicine worth more than $250 million.
Sanjay Kumar got 43 months for selling counterfeit Keytruda. PSM wrote federal agencies about a Super Bowl ad promoting diagnostic tests and compounded medicines with false claims.
On February 26, 2026, PSM was glad to see the Indiana legislature pass SB 282, a bill that strengthens compounding and medical spa regulation to keep Indiana patients safer.
As Europol seized a huge amounts of counterfeit pharmaceuticals abroad, a Kentucky legislator proposed a bill to regulate med spas after a constituent was seriously injured and adverse events related to weight loss drugs see surges across the US.
Washington State investigators found serious violations at a Mochi Health-affiliated compounding pharmacy producing GLP-1s, and a med spa bill in Indiana hears public testimony about a med spa bill.
Industry experts told us that these two companies are on the FDA’s Green List, despite problematic inspections in late 2024 and early 2025. Learn what the inspectors found.
Well-meaning advocates continue to propose importing medicine from foreign countries to lower drug prices for Americans. Past efforts didn’t pay off financially and raised public health risks. Here’s the state of this issue today.
A Pennsylvania compounding pharmacy received another FDA warning letter following a series of enforcement actions, including a $1 million state fine in October.