Bogus medicines flood developing world
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Counterfeit medicines, some of them sold over the Internet, are swamping unregulated markets in developing nations with sometimes fatal results, the U.N. drug control watchdog said on Thursday.
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After years of churning out cheap copycat drugs for the home market, Indian pharmaceutical firms are trying their hand at researching new drugs as they seek fresh revenue streams to cement their long-term survival.
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Although the volume of prescription drugs and drug ingredients coming into the country from foreign manufacturers in developing nations such as India and China has exploded in recent years, the Food and Drug Administration's budget for foreign inspections has not kept pace and will be lower in 20...
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Multimillion-pound global conspiracy to sell fake Viagra tablets and medicines to treat male baldness.
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The African nation's last rain forests are in danger from both agricultural developers and locals who believe its plants hold pharmacological secrets
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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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Chinaâs recent crackdown on unsafe pharmaceuticals came too late for some victims, like Du Haipeng and Liu Sichen, who were treated with a contaminated drug.
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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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Scientists and police have exposed a major Asian trade in life-threatening fake malaria drugs, resulting in the seizure of hundreds of thousands of tablets and the arrest of a dealer in southern China.
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The initiative is part of an effort to ferret out unpublished research consucted by pharmaceutical companies that finds medications to be ineffective or dangerous.
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The strategy of fighting AIDS in Africa with questionable generic drugs made in developing countries now lies in shambles as an Indian company withdrew its medicines last week because it can&#39;t guarantee they are potent enough.
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New developments are brewing at the pharmaceutical.
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Almost 3,000 people have died in the past three years after suffering serious side-effects or allergies to their medicines, official figures show.
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More than Â£1m of illegal medicines and veterinary drugs have been seized in a cross-border operation. The authorities said they have helped to smash a criminal ring involved in the manufacture and distribution of illegal antibiotics for use on farms.
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Officials estimate that counterfeits of life-saving drugs may be a factor in up to 200,000 deaths each year.
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Patients with a potentially fatal lung condition have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a drug that was not approved for their disease but was promoted for that use.
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Researchers have found harmful levels of lead, mercury, and/or arsenic in one out of every five ayurvedic herbal medicinal products mainly manufactured in India.