Online drug shopping 'widespread'
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The UK's pharmaceutical society launches a logo to validate online chemists amid rising internet drug buying.
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India and China, countries where the Food and Drug Administration rarely conducts quality-control inspections, have become major suppliers of low-cost drugs and drug ingredients to American consumers. Analysts say their products are becoming pervasive in the generic and over-the-counter marketplace.
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The same brand names are sometimes  used for different drugs in different countries, posing a risk  for people who import cheaper medicines from abroad, a U.S.  group warned on Thursday.
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Online shoppers are still willing to buy products advertised in spam, indicating that the problem is unlikely to desist anytime soon, a new survey shows.
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For anyone--dealers, addicts and children included--purchasing these and other drugs online and prescription-free is as easy as point and click.
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Nearly 50 percent of Internet users have searched for their own name online, but few regularly monitor their online presence with great regularity. Even more people -- 53 percent of Internet users to be exact -- have searched online for information about personal and business contacts.
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Tuesday said his office has created an interactive Web site to help New Yorkers comparison shop for prescription drugs, following a statewide survey showing widely varying prices at pharmacies.
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An investigation into the practice of Internet Pharmacies and how they are changing the U.S. pharmaceutical industry.
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Consumers in the United States are already spending record amounts of money online. One e-commerce company has a novel way to help Net shoppers hunt for bargains this holiday season.
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Only 4 percent of Americans have ever used the Internet to buy prescription drugs - and even fewer do so through foreign pharmacies - despite Web sites maintained by a handful of states to help citizens import medicines more cheaply from Canada, a new study finds.
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Canadians must stop Americans from using Internet pharmacies to raid its medicine chest or face a drug shortage, a coalition of Canadian groups representing seniors, pharmacies and patients has warned.
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By INTERVIEWS BY Daisy Hildyard  British shoppers spent [pound]150m on the internet last Monday, as high street stores admitted their sales were down. Are we all online shoppers now?    Rob Harris, 25    CHEMIST   Car insurance.
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Shopping around shopping guides shows a new level of sophistication to buying online, a report suggests.
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TORONTO - Canadians must stop Americans from using Internet pharmacies to raid its medicine chest or face a drug shortage, a coalition of Canadian groups representing seniors, pharmacies and patients has warned.    The groups, claiming to represent 10 million Canadians, or about one-third the population, called on the Canadian government Monday to ban prescription drug exports...
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Testing has found fake versions of Lipitor and other widely used prescription drugs in orders purchased through Web sites linked to a Canadian pharmacy, the Food and Drug Administration said yesterday.
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Survey: A majority of prescription drug takers don't purchase their medications online.
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'If you sell illegal medicines, we will stop you' Healthcare regulators have raided a series of UK web businesses believed to be connected to the illegal offering of prescription drugs on the internet.â¦