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CDC Warns of Fake Drug Dangers From Online Pharmacies

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3, 2024 -- Americans who turn to online pharmacies to find cheaper versions of expensive prescription medications, especially opioids, may instead be buying themselves dangerous drugs that could trigger an overdose, U.S. THURSDAY, Oct.

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New JAMA Article Recommends Personal Drug Importation To Help American Patients Afford Prescription Drugs

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Harvard doctors and public health experts recommend using the website PharmacyChecker.com to find international online pharmacies to order more affordable prescription drugs for personal importation when domestic savings strategies fail. As the article notes, three in ten American adults struggle to afford prescription drugs.

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Mark Cuban’s Pharmacy Dreams Are Generic

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Mark Cuban’s new online pharmacy venture – the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (“Cost Plus Drug”) – will not help overcome the biggest obstacle to drug affordability in America, which is drug company monopolies on patented brand name prescription drugs. Enter Cuban’s Cost Plus Drug.

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The Domain Reform for Unlawful Drug Sellers Act is Big Pharma’s Bill

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Mark Rubio (R-FL) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) , called the “Domain Reform for Unlawful Drug Sellers Act’’ or, for short, the ‘‘DRUGS Act,’’ could effectively end online access to safe and affordable imported medicines for Americans. But the FDA already has a program for tackling online opioid drug dealers.

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Statements and Thoughts on Motion on Summary Judgement in PharmacyChecker v. NABP et al 

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the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy et al., in which PharmacyChecker alleges an unlawful “conspiracy involving front groups for Big Pharma” that keep “lower priced drugs out of reach of millions of Americans.” That research has identified PharmacyChecker as a company that properly credentials online pharmacies.

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Drug Channels News Roundup, February 2021: Accumulator Problems, Humana + ESI, White Bagging Battles, Buy-and-Bill Economics, and Pharmacy Hero Dave Marley

Drug Channels

Let’s melt away this foul February with our monthly selection of scorching news from around the drug channel. In this issue: Payers confess: Patients lose from copay accumulators Humana joins the Express Scripts GPO Hospitals vs. PBMs over specialty pharmacy white bagging Let’s all follow the Buy-and-Bill Dollar!

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CDER’s Office of Compliance Kicks Off Annual Report Season with Rundown of 2023’s Major Public Health Enforcement Initiatives

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Claud — The Office of Compliance (OC) at FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) had a role in many of the major public health enforcement matters you may have read about last year. OC devoted a lot of resources to its compliance efforts directed at human drug compounding. Drug Supply Chain. By John W.M.