Word: counterfeited
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...admit it: many of us have congratulated ourselves, if a bit guiltily, for buying a counterfeit branded handbag or DVD, pleased to have paid so little for something that was almost as good as the real thing. Most consumers would not knowingly apply the same logic to the medicine they take-who wants imitation Viagra? But people around the world may be unwittingly buying fake pharmaceuticals all the same. A raid of a ramshackle warehouse in southern China's Guangdong province last month turned up plenty of evidence that brand-name drugs are not always what they seem...
...international health organization officials are alarmed by the health threat posed by the increasing availability of fake drugs pouring out of illegal factories, mostly in China and India. According to Dr. Harvey Bale Jr., director general of the Geneva-based International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations (IFPMA), trafficking in counterfeit medicines is a $3 billion-$6 billion industry-and as the price of genuine drugs continues to climb, some say the problem is bound to increase, too. "It's absolutely way worse than reported," says Joseph Simone, a partner at law firm Baker & McKenzie in Hong Kong and vice chairman...
...city with modern health regulations and consumer safeguards. In countries where there is little policing of the pharmaceutical trade, the chances of walking into a drugstore and being sold a fake are surprisingly high. Consumers living in Southeast Asia face a 1 in 10 chance of buying a counterfeit, cautions the IFPMA. The situation is worse in mainland China, where consumers have a fifty-fifty chance of buying fake versions of some types of over-the-counter medications. And for those seeking top-selling (and hence much copied) prescription drugs, fakes may be outnumbering the real products by as much...
Having behaved on camera their entire lives, the Olsens know how to counterfeit emotion, though not, yet, how to convey it. Then again, De Niro and Streep would have trouble bringing to life an inert mix of farce and sentiment that ends up being both exploitative and bathetic--kiddie corn...
...result of adverse reactions from FDA-sanctioned pharmaceutical drugs sold in America. In fact, mistakes in administering drugs, often in hospitals, are the fourth-or sixth-leading cause of death in the U.S., depending on how the cases are counted. By comparison, the risk from defective, counterfeit or mislabeled drugs from Canada is presumed but unproved by any evidence. When TIME asked a spokesman for PhRMA, the drug-industry association, if there were any cases of Canadian drug imports harming Americans, he said, "Yes, I believe there have been some. I believe FDA has some on its website." In fact...