Bogus medicines flood developing world: U.N. report
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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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MEXICO CITY - Technological advances that help drug companies churn out highly profitable prescription medications must also be applied to improving public health care around the globe, a World Health Organization report released Wednesday says.
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U.S. program allots $15 billion to buy low cost combination drugs made by foreign companies, opening the way to treat more patients in poor countries.
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With an ever-larger percentage of prescription drugs and drug ingredients coming to the U.S. market from developing nations such as China and India, Congress is voicing concern that the number of inspections of those plants by the Food and Drug Administration has grown far more slowly.
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PRETORIA -- Ranbaxy Laboratories in India withdrew seven antiretroviral drugs for AIDS patients last month from the World Health Organization list of prequalified medicines. The company acknowledged that it did not complete proper lab tests to make sure its copycat drugs were equivalent with brand-name ones.
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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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The worldwide illegal drugs trade has stopped growing for the first time since the mid-Nineteenth Century, although use and production of some drugs is rising fast in pockets, a senior U.N. official said on Wednesday.
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Americans, long considered one of the most medicated peoples in the world, are swallowing more pills than ever, according to a report released on Thursday by the U.S. government.
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The World Health Organization aims to harness smart technology to stop counterfeit medicines flooding developing world markets with sometimes fatal results.
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Access to anti-Aids drugs is spreading in many poor countries, but not as fast as had been hoped, the WHO says.
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Testing revealed fake versions of Lipitor and other widely used prescription drugs ordered through Web sites linked to a Canadian pharmacy, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.
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The World Bank says it has uncovered fraud and corruption in five massive health projects in India.
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The World Health Organization has turned  to Africa -- where a child dies every 30 seconds from malaria  -- for urgently needed new stocks of a Chinese plant needed to  make a key antimalarial drug, a top official said.
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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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Millions regularly buy prescription drugs in spite of risk they could be sold fakes, research shows
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Italy has netted smugglers of illicit  wildlife products by using a guide to help recognize  traditional Asian medicine, a U.N. conference heard Tuesday.
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CARELESS use of vitamins, taken by millions in the belief that they promote good health, could be causing thousands of premature deaths, scientists have warned.