Bad medicine; Fake pharmaceuticals  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 405 no. 8806 (Oct. 2012), page 71-72.
Topik: International; Pharmaceutical Industry; Quality Control; Industry-wide Conditions; Fraud

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No one knows exactly what share of medicines are fake, ill-made, stolen or diverted. But bad pharma is a global problem, which national drug-safety agencies are struggling to contain. It particularly afflicts countries where officials are bribable, health systems lax and consumers desperate. PATIENTS expect drugs to be safe. But even in supposedly well-run health systems, they can be useless--or deadly. Tainted steroids from a compounding pharmacy (one which mixes its own drugs) near Boston had killed 11 people with fungal meningitis and sickened more than 100 as of October 10th. A contaminated blood thinner, heparin, was linked to 149 American deaths in 2007-08. This year it emerged that some vials of the cancer medicine Avastin contained no active ingredient.

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