Drug makers target counterfeits
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Big pharmaceutical companies are testing new tracking technology they hope will help them spot counterfeit drugs before they reach consumers' medicine cabinets.
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IBM said on Friday it has developed  technology to help drug distributors, manufacturers and  retailers prevent counterfeit drugs from making their way into  the market.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Admitting that drug patent regulations are unclear and subject to abuse, Ottawa is returning the rules governing competition between brand-name and generic drug makers.
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British drugmakers are launching a legal challenge to moves by the state-run National Health Service to switch large numbers of patients onto cheap generic prescription medicines.
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An investigation has been launched to investigate whether drug firms have been fixing the market to squeeze out copycat medicines
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Pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma LP is working closely with law-enforcement agencies to use radio-frequency identification technology to protect shipments of OxyContin, Purdue&#39;s painkiller drug that&#39;s a frequent target for theft.
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OLYMPIA -- With an acute shortage of flu vaccine this year, authorities are warning consumers to be on the alert for price-gouging or practitioners using old, diluted or counterfeit vaccine.
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The anti-industry crusader targets pharmaceuticals.
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Pfizer is the latest drug maker to warn that a product already on the market may pose serious health risks. It took outrage from activists in September to get the Food and Drug Administration to require warning
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Viagra, the blockbuster impotence pill that is copied and counterfeited around the world, is one of the first drugs to get a little radio chip tracking device under a new Food and Drug Administration initiative announced on Monday.
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Waving fake DVDs and pirated books, officials from Hollywood and the American publishing industry have complained to US lawmakers that the rampant counterfeiting problem in China was wreaking havoc to their businesses.
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Half of men buying the impotence drug Viagra online are getting counterfeit tablets, study findings suggest. Dr Nic Wilson from the University of London tested Internet-sold samples using a new technique that accurately spots the ingredients of tablets.
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Vendors who sell designer brands at markets, whether legal or imitation, may face legal action. Regardless of whether vendors have genuine goods or counterfeits, Li Dongsheng
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Coupling New England ingenuity with anti-counterfeiting technology, doctors and police in Rutland, Vt., have developed a plan to thwart drug users who forge prescriptions for powerful pain killers like OxyContin.
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Drug companies are bombarding GPs with promotional materials and inducements, campaigners say.
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Viagra, Oxycontin and some AIDS  drugs will be among the first to carry radio chip tracking  devices under a new Food and Drug Administration initiative to  prevent theft and counterfeiting announced on Monday.
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Viagra, the blockbuster impotence  pill that is copied and counterfeited around the world, is one  of the first drugs to get a little radio chip tracking device  under a new Food and Drug Administration initiative announced  on Monday.