You might be interested in how the FDA thinks about the personal importation of drugs.
Here are two links that I find very useful:
According to the article:
"The two-injection combination treatment is called Cabenuva. The drug is expected to make it easier for people to receive their HIV medicines and to do so with more privacy. The injections mark a big change from methods used in the past. Those treatments required patients to take multiple pills several times a day, carefully timed around meals.
Dr. Steven Deeks is an HIV specialist at the University of California, San Francisco. He told The Associated Press that the new treatment can make patients’ lives better because it is only needed once a month. “People don’t want those daily reminders that they’re HIV infected,” Deeks said."
Read the full source article: FDA Approves First Long-Acting HIV Drug Combo - VOA
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Top 10 Things CDC Says You Should Know | PBS NewsHour:
" . . . the CDC has compiled a list of 10 things you should know about prescription drug abuse. . . . "
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500,000 Times Each Year a Child gets into Medicine or gets the Wrong Dose:
"Safe Kids Worldwide released a new research report that found kids are getting into medicine at an alarming rate. Every minute of every day, a poison control center receives a call about a potential medicine poisoning for a child age five and under. And 67,000 times each year, or every eight minutes, a young child goes to the emergency room for medicine poisoning. This is a 30 percent increase over the past ten years."
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Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics - Economic and Technological Drivers of Generic Sterile Injectable Drug Shortages:
"Over the past few years, an increasing number of critically needed medicines have been in short supply. Using economic theory to frame the drug-shortage problem, this paper explores why and how manufacturing-quality problems could combine with other economic and technological factors to result in shortages of generic sterile injectable drugs. The fundamental problem we identify is the inability of the market to observe and reward quality. This lack of reward for quality can reinforce price competition and encourage manufacturers to keep costs down by minimizing quality investments."
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SecuringIndustry.com - Many more fake drugs now using real APIs, US official says:
"The US Department of Commerce reports that more and more counterfeit pharmaceuticals are using real APIs to trick patients.
Globalisation of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) supply chain means raw materials are more readily available in countries where counterfeit manufacturing takes place.
The trend has helped counterfeiters change the composition of their products, Security Management reports.
"Twenty years ago most counterfeit medicines did not contain any medicinal ingredients. They had ground up dry wall, sawdust, anything to make the product look real," said Jeffrey Gren, director, Office of Health and Consumer Goods at the US Department of Commerce, said."
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The FDA has a nice constellation of items and articles related to counterfeit medicine.
Counterfeit Medicine - US FDA Website:
"Counterfeit Medicine - Counterfeit medicine is fake medicine. It may be contaminated or contain the wrong or no active ingredient. They could have the right active ingredient but at the wrong dose. Counterfeit drugs are illegal and may be harmful to your health.
FDA takes all reports of suspect counterfeits seriously and, in order to combat counterfeit medicines, is working with other agencies and the private sector to help protect the nation's drug supply from the threat of counterfeits."'via Blog this'
This is pretty controversial stuff, as the dietary supplement industry largely opposes the draft regulation
Medical News: FDA Supplement Guidance Not Strict Enough, MD Says - in Public Health and Policy, FDA General from MedPage Today:
"An FDA proposal to require dietary supplement manufacturers to submit data proving their product is safe doesn't go far enough, according to a physician writing in the New England Journal of Medicine.
More than 100 million Americans spend more than $28 billion on vitamins, minerals, herbal ingredients, amino acids and other natural products in the form of dietary supplements each year, "assuming they are both safe and effective," wrote Pieter A. Cohen, MD, of Harvard Medical School and the Cambridge Health Alliance.
But they have no assurance that the products are safe because FDA regulation of supplements is too weak, Cohen wrote in a Perspective piece."'via Blog this'
"China remained the primary source of counterfeit goods across all categories, representing 62 per cent of all seizures by value, with the value of pharmaceutical seizures from China increasing by more than $4.3m and the value of perfume seizures up $7m on the prior year.'via Blog this
Meanwhile, India and Pakistan both featured in the top 10 source countries in 2011, mainly due to seizures of counterfeit pharmaceuticals. Pharmaceutical seizures accounted for 86 per cent of the value of seizures from India and 85 per cent from Pakistan, said the CBP.
The top 10 source countries - in descending order - were: China; Hong Kong; India; Pakistan; Taiwan; Switzerland; Malaysia; South Korea; UK; and Mexico."
"A new FDA-approved hangover cure has hit the market just in time for holiday party season."'via Blog this'
"The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday awarded $2 million to support the creation of research centers tasked with improving the way new medicines and medical devices are reviewed and evaluated."
The centers will be established at the University of Maryland and Georgetown University.
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Image via WikipediaNCCAM's (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) Time to Talk campaign encourages patients to tell their providers about CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) use and providers to ask about it by offering tools and resources — such as wallet cards, posters, and tip sheets — all of which are available for free at: http://nccam.nih.gov/timetotalk/More information for providers: http://nccam.nih.gov/health/providers/.
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