Battle Against Counterfeit Drugs Has New Weapon: Pollen
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A new investigation offers a model for attacking what has become a flood of fake drugs, which threaten to undermine the global fight against malaria.
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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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TURIN, Italy  - The discovery of a new, highly  sophisticated steroid designed to evade drug-testers is a  positive step in the war against doping in sport although more  illegal substances are sure to surface, says Olympic chief  Jacques Rogge.
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Researchers say they have found a way to reverse resistance to one of the most effective anti-cancer drugs.
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Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Purdue Pharma are the first drugmakers willing to take the plunge and use radio frequency identification technology to protect their US drug supply chains from counterfeiters.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in conjunction with several major drug companies, is working on an initiative that would involve fitting medicine bottles with tiny antennas to prevent fraud and counterfeiting, the New York Times reported Nov. 15.
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Honeybees could be keeping a cornucopia of anti-cancer compounds in their hives, early research in mice suggests.
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Harry Lime, peddling diluted penicillin  in post-war Vienna in the 1949 film "The Third Man," was an  early pioneer: today the counterfeit medicine business has gone  global, fuelled by the "perfect channel" of the Internet,  according to a U.N. drug watchdog.
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As many as half of the Viagra anti-impotence pills sold on the Internet could be counterfeit, British scientists said on Tuesday. They analysed samples of Viagra sold on the Web and found that some of the
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Genetically engineered grass developed for use on golf courses can spread its modified genes for miles, carried by ultra-light pollen particles, U.S. government researchers said on Tuesday.
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Glue-sniffing and other forms of solvent abuse are being overlooked in the fight against drugs, a report finds.
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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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Abuse of prescription drugs is about to exceed the use of illicit street narcotics worldwide, and the shift has spawned a lethal new trade in counterfeit painkillers, sedatives and other medicines potent enough to kill, a global watchdog warned Wednesday.
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A criminal investigation is launched after a counterfeit batch of prostate cancer drugs was discovered.
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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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A media exhibit featuring a campaign for a fake drug to treat a fictitious illness is causing a stir because some people think the illness is real.
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Scientists believe they have identified a protein which could be the key to developing a new treatment for allergies.