Posted by Lindsey Rodriguez on May 11, 2012 | No Comments
ABSTRACT
Using 1437 samples of Ciprofloxacin from 18 low-to-middle-income countries, we aim to understand the role that regulation and distribution channel have played in signaling and ensuring drug safety. According to the World Health Organization, some poor quality drugs are deliberately and fraudulently mislabeled with respect to identity or source while others can have incorrect quantities of active ingredient as a result of manufacturing error or poor storage. Given the difficulty to prove “intent to deceive”, we classify poor quality drugs as counterfeit if they fail a visual check or contain zero correct active ingredient, and as substandard if they pass the visual check and contain some but less than 80% of the correct active ingredient.
Following the Global Pharma Health Fund e.V. Min
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Tags: Distribution Channel, Drug
Posted by Lindsey Rodriguez on May 08, 2012 | No Comments
PUBLISHED: 04:29 EST, 4 May 2012 | UPDATED: 06:04 EST, 4 May 2012
Mr Marshall and his family were stranded halfway home from a holiday of a lifetime in South America.
He and his wife and three children had enjoyed a fortnight in Ecuador and a visit to the Galapagos Islands.
They had flown back to Madrid, where they were due to board a flight home to London, when all flights were cancelled as volcano Eyjafjallajökull erupted in Iceland.
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Posted by Lindsey Rodriguez on Apr 09, 2012 | No Comments
Abstract:
This study assesses the trade-off between drug safety and price savings in online drug purchases. Focusing on five brand-name prescription drugs, we acquire 370 drug samples from 41 online pharmacies and test their authenticity. Of the 41 websites, 8 are clearly US-based and verified by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) or LegitScript.com. We refer to them as tier 1. Another 23 websites referred to as tier 2 – are not verified by NABP or LegitScript but verified by PharmacyChecker.com or the Canadian International Pharmacy Association (CIPA). The remaining 10 websites are not verified by any of the four verification agencies and therefore classified as tier 3. Mo
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Posted by Lindsey Rodriguez on Mar 27, 2012 | No Comments
A Florida auto insurance fraud scam involves more than a dozen alleged crooks who truly were out to lunch.
So far, 15 people have been arrested as part of a Miami crime ring that used lunch delivery trucks to stage more than a dozen car accidents and file more than $800,000 in fraudulent auto insurance claims for property damage and personal injury protection . The arrests were announced March 27.
Jeff Atwater, Floridas chief financial officer, says more arrests are expected.
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Tags: Auto Insurance, Florida Auto, Florida Auto Insurance, Scam
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