Pharmaceutical Giant-Counterfeit Version-Health Authorities-Fake Version-Cancer Drug

US finds more fake cancer drugs

A counterfeit version of Roche's cancer drug Altuzan was found to contain no active ingredient

Less than two months after counterfeit Avastin, a cancer drug made by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche, was found on the US market, another fake version has turned up, health authorities said Wednesday. read more..

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Medco Health Solutions Inc-Cancer Treatment-Effectiveness-Side Effects-Cancer Drug

Common medicines may cut cancer drug potency: study

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(Reuters) - Many patients taking a widely prescribed class of oral cancer drugs are also using a variety of medications that could reduce the effectiveness of the cancer treatment or increase its toxic side effects, according to research by Medco Health Solutions Inc. For example, 43 percent of patients taking the highly effective leukemia drug Gleevec were also on another medicine that could diminish its efficacy, while 68 percent were taking something that could potentially raise the toxicity level, the study found. ... read more..

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Global Health Regulators-Supply Chain-Cancer Drug-Avastin

Fake Avastin shows very little protects drug supply

A worker makes its way on a bridge at Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche plant in Basel

NEW YORK (Reuters) - As drug counterfeiters step up their sales of bogus medicines, global health regulators have few protections in place to prevent them from reaching patients, and new laws aimed at addressing the problem could be years away. Scrutiny of the supply chain has grown since fake versions of Roche's multibillion-dollar cancer drug Avastin turned up at U.S. oncology practices late last year, sparking an international investigation that so far stretches from southern California back to Turkey with a stopover in a Cairo suburb. ... read more..

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Health Authorities-Drug Shortages-Skin Cancer-Cancer Drug

US to import short-supply cancer drug from India

Prescription drug shortages in the United States nearly tripled from 2005 to 2010

US health authorities said Tuesday they will import a drug to treat ovarian, bone marrow and AIDS-related skin cancer from India in order to ward off a worrying shortage. read more..

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Case Western Reserve University School Of Medicine-Prevention News-Cancer Drug-Health News

Prevention News: A cancer drug that reverses Alzheimer's, who should go gluten f...

Prevention News: A cancer drug that reverses Alzheimer's, who should go gluten free, and more of today's health news you needCancer Drug Reverses Alzheimer’s In Mice - Prevention.comhttp://bit.ly/wojqaJA lymphoma drug appears to quickly reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's in mice, according to a new study from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. read more..

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