Beware of drugs you buy in Ilocos, DoH warns
THE DEPARTMENT of Health yesterday revealed that 80 percent of drugstores and pharmacies in the Ilocos region were selling counterfeit drugs made of ash or flour.
Fake medicines
MEDICINES are essential to the maintenance of health and the survival of life in any society, from the earliest tribal units to the present-day sophisticated communities. Drugs have especially become necessary in the modern world with the intrusion of new and fatal afflictions for which, like the common cold, advances
Suspected dealer of fake medicines arrested
A FORMER medical representative was arrested in a buy-bust operation that also led to the seizure of counterfeit and expired drugs worth about P5 million.
Glass shard found in medicine for pneumonia
Gov. Luisa Cuaresma has ordered an investigation into the quality of low-cost generic medicines bought by the provincial government. Cuaresma ordered the inquiry following last week's discovery of what appeared to be a glass shard inside a sealed vial of an injectable drug.
PR drive vs 'counterfeit' medicines confirmed
TWO weeks after this column dwelt on a propaganda drive against government importations of medicines to provide Filipinos with cheaper medicines ("Medicines imported by RP gov't are not fake," As I See It, 1-24-05).
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