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The role of pharmacists in eliminating counterfeit medicines in Nigeria

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionOver the years, counterfeit pharmaceuticals have posed immense concerns for global health and patient safety. This menace encompasses various classes of medications. Given the criticality of pharmacists’ interventions in drug distribution and
Obi Peter Adigwe
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TRACTABLE FALSIFIABILITY [PDF]

Economics and Philosophy, 2015
Abstract:We propose to strengthen Popper’s notion of falsifiability by adding the requirement that when an observation is inconsistent with a theory, there must be a ‘short proof’ of this inconsistency. We model the concept of a short proof using tools from computational complexity, and provide some examples of economic theories that are falsifiable in
Ronen Gradwohl, Eran Shmaya
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Pharmacists’ perceptions and attitudes toward drug importation into the State of Florida

Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 2021
Background The Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration released the Safe Importation Action Plan in July 2020 detailing methods to import medicines from Canada to combat increasing drug costs.
John B. Hertig, Jade M. Jochem, Allissa M. Long   +2 more
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Contents and Time‐Course of Falsified Alprazolam Detections in New South Wales, Australia [PDF]

Drug and Alcohol Review
Jared A Brown, Janette L Smith
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A simplified checklist for the visual inspection of finished pharmaceutical products: a way to empower frontline health workers in the fight against poor-quality medicines

Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 2020
Background Substandard and falsified medicines, mainly prevalent in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), cause avoidable morbidity and mortality, and put at stake the performance of health systems.
B. Schiavetti, E. Wynendaele, V. Melotte, J. Van der Elst, B. De Spiegeleer, R. Ravinetto   +5 more
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Sounding out falsified medicines from genuine medicines using Broadband Acoustic Resonance Dissolution Spectroscopy (BARDS)

Scientific Reports, 2021
The trade in falsified medicine has increased significantly and it is estimated that global falsified sales have reached $100 billion in 2020. The EU Falsified Medicines Directive states that falsified medicines do not only reach patients through illegal
Anas Alfarsi, Céline Caillet, Garry Fawbert, Simon Lawrence, Jacob Krüse, Seán McSweeney, Marcus O’Mahony, Arjen Dondorp, Paul N. Newton, Dara Fitzpatrick   +9 more
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Quality assessment of Diflucan tablets distributed online: Diflucan distributed online

Medicine Access @ Point of Care, 2021
Background: Falsified medical products have been reported worldwide. Falsified medicines with poor quality are a potential health hazard. Some Internet sites advertise fluconazole (Diflucan ® ), an antifungal medicine used to treat deep mycoses, as ...
Tomoko Sanada, Myu Ohnishi, Naoko Yoshida, Kazuko Kimura, Hirohito Tsuboi   +4 more
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Discrimination of Falsified Erectile Dysfunction Medicines by Use of an Ultra-Compact Raman Scattering Spectrometer

Pharmacy, 2020
Substandard and falsified medicines are often reported worldwide. An accurate and rapid detection method for falsified medicines is needed to prevent human health hazards. Raman scattering spectroscopy has emerged as a non-destructive analysis method for
Tomoko Sanada, Naoko Yoshida, Kazuko Kimura, Hirohito Tsuboi   +3 more
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Falsified medicines in Africa

The Lancet Global Health, 2015
Tim Ziemer
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Falsifiability is not optional.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2017
Finkel, Eastwick, and Reis (2016; FER2016) argued the post-2011 methodological reform movement has focused narrowly on replicability, neglecting other essential goals of research. We agree multiple scientific goals are essential, but argue, however, a more fine-grained language, conceptualization, and approach to replication is needed to accomplish ...
Loving, Timothy, Campbell , Lorne, Berger, Derek, Lebel , Etienne   +3 more
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