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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Half of Viagra tablets sold on the Internet are fake, research suggests.
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The site, which allows New Yorkers to compare prices for drugs at various pharmacies, shows a huge range in costs.
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Online  buying continues to snowball, according to the results of a recent America Online survey. This year, for the first time, Americans who regularly use the Internet for shopping -- researching or buying products at least once a month -- will do more shopping online than at shopping malls and stores, from catalogues and by phone, the survey found.
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Missouri is joining Illinois and Wisconsin in a new Internet program that helps residents buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and Europe despite a federal ban.
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The government has given the go ahead for Internet-only pharmacies as part of a wider strategy to allow patients easier access to prescriptions and other pharmaceutical services.
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Half the Viagra tablets sold on the internet may be fakes, the British Pharmaceutical Conference in Manchester was told yesterday by London University researchers who have developed a way of identifying imitations.
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The first raw data on Internet usage yesterday indicate shoppers rode heavy on the net. But there's one important question outstanding: Were those shoppers also purchasers?
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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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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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The illicit availability of slimming pills online fuels a slimming obsession, putting lives at risk, experts warn.
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A surprising amount of shoppers are willing to buy from spammers, study finds.
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The publisher of Consumer Reports launched a free Web site Thursday to do for prescription drugs what it has already done for cars, refrigerators and other gadgets: rate them on safety, effectiveness and cost.
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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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Consumers Union, publishers of Consumer Reports, launched a &quot;Best Buy&quot; Web site for medications Thursday. In a telephone news conference from Washington, DC, CU announced that three classes of drugs were already tested and posted.
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For the first time in many European countries, nonprescription drugs are being sold over the counter at outlets other than pharmacies.
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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.