Radio tags to vouch for drugs&#39; legitimacy
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The Food and Drug Administration on Monday issued guidelines it hopes will prompt drugmakers to use tiny radio tracking chips on their product packaging to help thwart counterfeiters.
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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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WASHINGTON - 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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Pharmaceutical companies' Rx for PR? Free stuff, and loads of it. See swag dispensed at the recent American Psychiatric Association conference in San Diego.
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Hong Kong researchers identify physical hallmarks to predict whether partiers have taken Ketamine, which means cops could call for a test. Can't keep your balance at the end of the night? You may not have a legal leg to stand on.
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Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, said it would begin shipments of the tagged medication this week. Pfizer, the maker of Viagra, said it would begin shipping RFID-tagged bottles by the end of next year.
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Today the Food and Drug Administration cleared the way for manufacturers to use tiny radio antennas on prescription drug shipments to track their products from the assembly line to the pharmacy.
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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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SUNDAY, Sept. 26 (HealthDayNews) -- For men, flagging potency can be a red flag that something's not right in the cardiovascular system. And experts say men who rush to fix the problem with impotence drugs may be ignoring a bigger threat to their health.
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Radio broadcasters are considering technology and business models that may soon allow listeners to click, listen and buy the tunes they hear on their favorite radio stations.
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Users of HD Radio devices will soon be able to 'tag' songs they hear for later purchase using iTunes.
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Millions regularly buy prescription drugs in spite of risk they could be sold fakes, research shows
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The radio frequency tag approved by the Food and Drug Administration is part military dog tag and part high-tech smart chip. The chip inside is encoded with the type and date of the surgery and the surgeon&#39;s name.
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Tag management system aims to help goods cross borders freely--but could get tangled in a legal tussle over drug tracking.
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The makers of the impotency drug Viagra and the painkiller OxyContin said Monday they will add radio transmitters to bottles of their pills to fight counterfeiting.
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Next-generation RF tags touted as a way to boost network security.
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