Many counterfeit pharmaceutical drugs are sold online, and the bulk of them are being obtained without a prescription.
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Prescription opiods, stimulants such as those used to treat ADHD and the ingredients found in sexual dysfunction drugs like Viagra are some of the drugs that are being marketed to US consumers.
People need a constant supply of affordable, safe and efficacious medicine.
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Each year, 500,000 people die of malaria annually, a preventable disease. Most of them children in Africa, where many anti-malarial drugs are fake or substandard.
Real-time tracking of drug production and distribution involves standardisation and investment in manufacturing and processing infrastructure.
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Dora Akunyili: few and far between.
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Harder times ahead for Pfizer as Viagra patents end.
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Those for whom Viagra is indispensable might be a little surprised that the ubiquitous blue, diamond-shaped pill was a chance discovery by a group of research pharmaceutical chemists at Pfizer’s research…