Canada Signals Crackdown on Internet Pharmacies
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The Canadian government signaled on Thursday it was ready to crack down on Internet pharmacies that send cheap medicine to the United States, often without Canadian doctors having seen the patients.
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TORONTO (CP) - For the past six years, a Canadian-designed computer system has been the ears and eyes on the vast English Internet world for public health authorities keen to detect and contain outbreaks of infectious diseases and bioterrorism.
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The United States could drain Canada of its cheaper prescription drugs as the result of new U.S. measures, the Ontario Pharmacists' Association said on Thursday.
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TORONTO (CP) - Canadians are paying hundreds of millions of dollars too much for generic prescription drugs because federal government policies are allowing manufacturers to shut out competitors, a study released Monday concludes.
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When it comes to blocking the importation of prescription drugs from Canada, pharmacists are a creative bunch. First, they sited safety concerns, but ignored the statistics that show US pharmacies are just
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TORONTO (CP) - Privacy guardians across the country say Canada needs to do more to protect its citizens against e-mail spam and identity theft.
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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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WINNIPEG, Manitoba Five years ago, a young pharmacist fresh out of school started selling Nicorette chewing gum on e-Bay. From that inauspicious start, the Canadian online pharmacy industry took off, racking
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With the click of a computer mouse, visitors to government Web sites in four states can fill orders for prescription drugs from private pharmacies in Canada.
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Merck &#38; Co. has decided to stop supplying its drugs to Canadian pharmacies that export the medicines to patients in the United States, the company confirmed Thursday.
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Canada&#39;s Alberta and Ontario provinces are cracking down on the growing number of US residents driving across the border to obtain flu shots.
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The government is set to announce plans to ease the rules on the opening of new pharmacies.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection  officials have scrapped their 11-month-old policy of seizing  prescription drugs imported through the mail from Canada, The  Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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Many Canadian internet pharmacies supplying Amer-icans with cheap prescription drugs will be forced to close under new licensing restrictions proposed by regulators in the prairie province of Manitoba.
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BOSTON -- Canada&#39;s health minister said Wednesday that his country &quot;cannot be the drug store of the United States&quot; - a warning that comes as several states are pushing to buy low-cost prescription drugs north of the border.
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By Simon Fluendy, Financial Mail on Sunday, London  Dec. 10--A crackdown on broadband internet providers after a torrent of  consumer complaints about poor service will be announced this week.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. BMY.N on  Wednesday said it plans to divest its struggling U.S. and  Canadian consumer medicines, including its Excedrin painkiller,  in a move that would tighten its U.S. focus on sales of  more-profitable prescription drugs.