Sentences with phrase «counterfeit medicines»

By using this tech, the companies will be able to highlight incidents of tampering and reduce the risk of counterfeit medicines, thus saving lives.

The development of a blockchain prototype tool is in process, and it could have the potential to solve the issue of counterfeit medicines.

The European Commission released their Falsified Medicines Directive in 2011 which established counterfeit medicines as a public health threat and called for stricter penalties for producing and selling counterfeit medicines.

In the summer of 2015, Interpol launched a coordinated campaign in 115 countries during which millions of counterfeit medicines with an estimated value of $ 81 million were seized, including everything from eye drops and tanning lotion to antidepressants and fertility drugs.

Researchers at the University of Montreal have developed an improved chemical analysis method that is more efficient and faster in detecting counterfeit medicines, which have skyrocketed in recent years.

«Our method can identify counterfeit medicines more quickly and efficiently, but safety must begin with public awareness,» says Waldron.

«According to the World Health Organization, worldwide sales of counterfeit medicines reached $ 75 billion in 2010.

Chemists play a vital role in detecting potentially dangerous counterfeit medicines.

According to Living Goods, clients may also be reluctant to buy drugs from other private providers because of the risk of getting a counterfeit medicine.63 Living Goods sent us a study conducted at the midline of its RCT that claims that both availability of counterfeit drugs and drug prices decreased at private retailers in areas where CHPs worked.64 According to the study, about 37 % of private drug shops in the areas it studied sold fake ACT drugs, 65 and availabilty of fake ACTs was about 50 % lower among non-Living Goods sellers in the areas where Living Goods worked.66 Additional results on these potential effects will be made available when the full RCT is published.

Not exact matches

Researchers at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government reported in 2013 that in regions with Living Goods distributors, the price of malaria medicine in local shops dropped by nearly 20 percent and incidence of counterfeit drugs fell by half.

Counterfeit drugs are estimated to make up as much as 30 % of medicines in some developing countries and cost legitimate pharmaceutical companies up to $ 200 billion per year.

«There is a big problem with counterfeit and substandard medicines in poorer countries, particularly in Africa and Asia,» said Soumyajit Mandal, assistant professor in the Department Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Case School of Engineering.

Depending upon the type of medicine and where you live, the threat of falsified medications (also referred to as counterfeit, fraudulent, and substandard) can be quite real, yet the full scope and prevalence of the problem is poorly understood, say researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in a new report published April 20 in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and medicine and where you live, the threat of falsified medications (also referred to as counterfeit, fraudulent, and substandard) can be quite real, yet the full scope and prevalence of the problem is poorly understood, say researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in a new report published April 20 in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Medicine in a new report published April 20 in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Medicine and Hygiene.

The UC San Diego study looked at the depth of counterfeit drug penetration in global legitimate medicine supply chains.

People do not necessarily realize that the medicine they purchased online is counterfeit because the packaging and appearance are often similar to the genuine product.

«Given a health - care system lacking decent equipment, qualified staff and affordable drugs (rather than the more popular counterfeit ones), a lack of faith in Western medicine is understandable.

Tablets, injections, and drops are convenient ways to administer life - saving medicine — but there is no way to tell what's in them just by looking, and that makes drugs relatively easy to counterfeit.

According to a BBC article, over 100,000 people die each year due to ineffective malaria medicines, and overall, Interpol puts the number of deaths due to counterfeit pharmaceuticals at up to a million per year.

Therefore, we can not be certain that the medicine being sold by these vendors are genuine products (there are many reports of counterfeit products on the market).

Illegal online pharmacies may sell medicines that are counterfeit, outdated, mislabeled, incorrectly formulated, or improperly made or stored.

If a patient receives counterfeit or substandard medicines, they could prevent the patient from getting better, cause sickness or worse, death.

Counterfeit medications might be responsible for an additional 116,000 deaths from malaria mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, according to scientists at the University of Edinburgh and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine»

Travelers with existing medical conditions should verify that they have enough medicines for their trip and watch out for counterfeit drugs if they do run short.