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Introduction of Good Practices of Drug Verification (DPWL) in hospital practice in Poland in order to protect against counterfeit drugs and improve patient safety [PDF]

Farmacja Polska, 2020
The phenomenon of counterfeit medicines is common in healthcare systems around the world, making it a global problem. The number of recorded cases of falsified drugs available on the market is increasing every year.
Piotr Merks, Mariola Drozd, Urszula Religioni   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Combating falsified medicines in Africa through digital artefacts [PDF]

, 2016
Falsified medicines are again in the news, this time in a piece for the BBC News’ websites business section. In his article, Matthew Wall looks at the problem of combating falsified, counterfeit and substandard anti-malarial medicines in Africa through ...
Hibberd, Ralph
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EU Falsified Medicines Directive mandatory requirements for secondary care: A concise review [PDF]

, 2016
Since the publication of the Falsified Medicines Directive in 2011 and the subsequent delegated regulation in February 2016, there has been much discussion surrounding the level of Falsified Medicines Directive compliance required by secondary care ...
Brindley, D, Chapman, S, Naughton, Bernard, Dopson, S, Naughton, B, Vadher, B, Smith, G, Smith, J   +7 more
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The hidden peril: Ecuador's struggle with substandard and falsified medicines [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
Vasconez-Gonzalez, Jorge, Izquierdo-Condoy, Juan S., Ortiz-Prado, Esteban   +2 more
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Environmental DNA as an innovative technique to identify the origins of falsified antimalarial tablets—a pilot study of the pharmabiome

Scientific Reports, 2022
Falsified medicines are a major threat to global health. Antimalarial drugs have been particularly targeted by criminals. As DNA analysis has revolutionized forensic criminology, we hypothesized that these techniques could also be used to investigate the
Jennifer M. Young, Craig Liddicoat, Kor-jent van Dijk, Patricia Tabernero, Celine Caillet, Nicholas J. White, Adrian Linacre, Jeremy J. Austin, Paul N. Newton   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Twenty-Month Monitoring of Humoral Immune Response to BNT162b2 Vaccine: Antibody Kinetics, Breakthrough Infections, and Adverse Effects

Vaccines, 2023
Background: Vaccination is one of the most effective life-saving medical interventions, and the introduction of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines was intended to prevent the serious implications of COVID-19.
Jaroslaw Walory, Iza Ksiazek, Michal Karynski, Anna Baraniak   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparing the return on investment of technologies to detect substandard and falsified amoxicillin: A Kenya case study

PLoS ONE, 2023
The prevalence of substandard and falsified medicines in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is a major global public health concern. Multiple screening technologies for post-market surveillance of medicine quality have been developed but there ...
Colleen R. Higgins, Betty Kobia, Sachiko Ozawa   +2 more
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Quality of antimalarial drugs and antibiotics in Papua New Guinea : a survey of the health facility supply chain [PDF]

, 2014
Poor-quality life-saving medicines are a major public health threat, particularly in settings with a weak regulatory environment. Insufficient amounts of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) endanger patient safety and may contribute to the ...
Betuela Inoni, Davis, T., Page-Sharp Madhu, Betuela, I., Page-Sharp, Madhu, Bala, Nancy, Bala Nancy, Manuel W Hetzel, Timothy M E Davis, Evelyn K Lavu, Pulford Justin, Lavu, Evelyn K., Nancy Bala, Nancy Bala (563875), Hetzel Manuel W., Davis Timothy M. E., Madhu Page-Sharp (563874), Evelyn K. Lavu (563877), Davis, Timothy M. E., Lavu Evelyn K., Justin Pulford, Lavu, E., Bala, N., Pulford, J., Madhu Page-Sharp, Betuela, Inoni, Inoni Betuela, Hetzel, M., Hetzel, Manuel W., Pulford, Justin, Justin Pulford (563876), Inoni Betuela (67110), Timothy M. E. Davis (112260), Manuel W. Hetzel (563873)   +33 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
doaj   +1 more source

Substandard and falsified medicines

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2021
The World Health Organization and others warn that substandard and falsified medicines harm health and waste money, especially in low- and middle-income countries. However, no country has measured the market-wide extent of the problem, and no standardized methods exist to estimate the prevalence of either substandard or falsified medicines. This is, in
Pisani, Elizabeth, Hasnida, Amalia, Rahmi, Mawaddati, Kok, Maarten Olivier, Harsono, Steven, Anggriani, Yusi   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources