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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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Screening for substandard and falsified medicines in Nigeria using visual inspection and GPHF-Minilab analysis: lessons learnt for future training of health workers and pharmacy personnel [PDF]

Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice
Lutz Heide
exaly   +2 more sources

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
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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
doaj   +2 more sources

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

The use of high performance anion exchange chromatography for the detection of counterfeit pharmaceutical products using the excipient content as a marker [PDF]

, 2015
The aim of the investigation described here was to examine the differences between genuine and counterfeit pharmaceutical products through the development of an analytical method capable of rigorously identifying the sugar-based excipients.
Suman, Mandeesh, Coleman, Tyler, Beasley, Emma   +2 more
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A New Handheld Device for the Detection of Falsified Medicines: Demonstration on Falsified Artemisinin-Based Therapies from the Field. [PDF]

, 2017
Poor-quality medicines are a major problem for health-care systems in resource-poor settings as identifying falsified medicines requires a complex laboratory infrastructure such as a Medicines Quality Control Laboratory. We report here an evaluation of a
Benjamin K. Wilson, Kaur, Harparkash, Allan, Elizabeth Louise, Harparkash Kaur, Elizabeth Louise Allan, Anthony Lozama, Wilson, Benjamin K, Bell, David, Lozama, Anthony, David Bell   +9 more
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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