Overwhelming demand for transformative GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic and Mounjaro has led to widespread compounding and a boom in counterfeiting.

Is it safe or cost-effective to import medicine from Canada's or other countries' drug supplies?

 

Pharmacy to pharmacy marketplaces for medicine have been used to traffick counterfeits. PSM is urging better safety measures

State Prescription Drug Affordability Boards intend to control medicine costs — but some of their strategies will have unintended consequences.

After two decades of tracking counterfeit drugs, PSM is an expert on medicine safety issues and we often offer journalists our insight and perspective. 

FDA Alert: Dietary Supplement Recalled for Containing Prescription Drug Ingredients

February 26, 2025

This is a reprint of an FDA Alert.

February 24, 2025: PSM report finds 80% of declared, unapproved semaglutide and tirzepatide slipped past customs over 17 months

February 25, 2025

PSM’s new report shows that unregulated semaglutide and tirzepatide are slipping by FDA and CBP at the border. Semaglutide is no longer in shortage.

New report reveals illegal ingredients for knockoff weight loss drugs flooding into U.S. from foreign sources, endangering patient safety

February 20, 2025

The Partnership for Safe Medicines today released a new report that found suspicious, unauthorized, and illegal ingredients for popular diabetes and obesity injectables (commonly known as weight loss drugs) are flooding into the U.S. from foreign sources despite U.S. laws forbidding them from coming through the border.

PSM applauds Arkansas Board of Pharmacy for protecting patients

February 14, 2025

The Partnership for Safe Medicines applauds the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy for utilizing new product verification technology for identifying illegitimate Ozempic quarantined by a pharmacy this week.

February 10, 2025: NY woman allegedly injected mystery substances instead of Botox

February 10, 2025
A woman's neck frings with layers of red welts

Mystery cosmetic injections allegedly harmed a client in Queens. PSM addressed a misleading drug ad for compounded weight loss medicine.

Over 100 million Americans just watched a misleading ad at the Super Bowl.

February 9, 2025

You could tell an American that they’re getting a compounded medicine and they would have no idea what that meant.  That may be a legal disclosure, but that’s not good enough to protect patients who don’t know what the words mean.

Letter to FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion, CDER

February 5, 2025

PSM sent the following letter to the FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (CDER) asking them to enforce the laws and guidelines that protect Americans from misleading advertising in the Hims&Hers Super Bowl ad.

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Who's investigating a company selling research-grade weight loss injections?  Find out..

Updates on two federal prosecutions.

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