safemedicines

Massive free trade zones like those in Dubai are being used by counterfeiters to smuggle fake drugs from China to Europe and the United States.

If there ever was a time to get serious with China, now is the time. The recent news of fake Apple and Ikea stores is almost too absurd to be true. But in China, the rules don't apply. Brand name and innovation mean zip. Intellectual property is free...

Counterfeit drugs are a danger to consumers. Safemedicines.org is the homepage of the Partnership for Safe Medicines, a coalition of patient, physician, pharmacist, academic, and industry groups that work together to educated the public about counter...

People searching online for information on prescription drugs have a 1 in 3 chance in being secretly hijacked to an online pharmacy instead, according to new research. Legitimate health information sites are being crowded out of search results by the...

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A growing number of illegal online pharmacies are flooding the Web trying...

The multi-billion-pound global trade in bogus medicines is responsible for an estimated half a million deaths a year. As Europe becomes an ever-more lucrative target for counterfeiters, Eric Clark meets the government agents and pharmaceutical compan...

MEDIA RELEASE Millions of people around the world rely on prescription drugs to treat medical problems like heart conditions, mental illnesses and cancer. They entrust that the medications they&#82...