2 cancer drugs latest to hit black market
Photo credit: Bruce Gilbert | James Abberton, Senior Director of Pharmacy Services for the North Shore LIJ Health System has two medications: Faslodex and Rituxan, two drugs prescription drug counterfeiters are making in illicit labs. (Jan 24, 2012)
Scam artists have stepped up the smuggling of medicines because of drug shortages in the United States while brazenly counterfeiting others, profiting on people with cancer and other medical conditions.
Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration alerted pharmacies and physicians that questionable versions of two leading cancer drugs had entered the pharmaceutical supply chain.
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