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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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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NEW YORK  - Researchers report that an  herbal remedy sometimes used to treat seasonal allergies  performed no better than a sugar pill in a new study.
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Mexican authorities are investigating the sale of fake or substandard medicine in a border town so popular among Americans seeking cheap medications that it has more pharmacies than streets.    U.S...
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Wyeth launches a generic version of its own drug.
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Pollen from a genetically modified grass can travel up to 21km away from its experimental planting site.
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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 month after a new U.S. law encouraging the development of medicines to counter bioterrorism, some drugmakers are lobbying for more incentives to make products that may never be used.
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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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Researchers say they have found a way to reverse resistance to one of the most effective anti-cancer drugs.
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(National-NBC) Nov. 15, 2004 - A new government initiative will put radio antennas on the labels of some of the most counterfeited drugs in the world.
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Counterfeit batches of Sanofi-Aventis SA's best-selling blood-thinning drug Plavix have been discovered in the British supply chain, the country's drugs regulator said.
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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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Three grains of pollen might help solve a 27-year-old murder mystery. To try to identify a teenage girl found slain in a western New York cornfield in 1979, investigators have turned to a pollen-analysis technique rarely used in the United States.
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Viagra, the impotence pill that is copied and counterfeited around the world, is one of the first drugs to get a radio tracking device under a new FDA initiative announced Monday.
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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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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.