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Online Pharmacies, The White House and ICANN
The letter below is an updated version of the one mailed on September 13th. September 13th, 2010 Mr. John O. Jeffery General Counsel Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers 4676 Admiralty...
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White House Meeting about Online Pharmacies with ICANN and Domain Registrars
To remind our readers about the White House meeting on Wednesday, September 29th — where discussions will be held with leaders from ICANN and domain registrars to address the issue of online pharmacies...
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Online Pharmacies, the Obama Administration and Public Health
The Obama administration is taking actions to address the illegal sale of counterfeit prescription drugs online. These efforts can benefit patients who could fall victim to rogue online pharmacies, but...
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SmartMoney Quotes PharmacyChecker.com Vice President in Article Affirming FDA...
A new SmartMoney.com article entitled Ten Things the FDA Won’t Tell You reaffirms what we’ve reported in the past – when it comes to drug importation for personal use, the FDA generally does not...
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Drug Importation Bill Introduced by Senator Olympia Snowe
Last May, we reported that AARP honored Senator Olympia Snowe (R- Maine) for her ongoing advocacy of policies and initiatives that seek to improve the lives of Americans age 50-plus. The award...
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FDA/National Consumers League Program on Prescription Adherence Unlikely to...
Last month the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a no contest grant to be awarded to the National Consumers League (NCL) to examine the problem of prescription adherence. The problem is one...
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The Protect Intellectual Property Act – S.968 Will Prevent Access To Medicines
Last Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously passed S. 968, Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011, also known as the Protect...
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U.S. Government Fed Up With Pharmaceutical Prices – FDA To The Rescue?
In March of this year the FDA took the unusual step of allowing an “unapproved” compounded drug to remain on the market to explicitly make sure Americans could afford that product. That drug is...
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PharmacyChecker.com Submits Comments to FDA Regarding Online Pharmacies and...
Per the FDA’s invitation for regulation reviews and comments as listed by the Federal Registrar, our vice president, Gabriel Levitt, submitted PharmacyChecker.com’s positions and suggestions pertaining...
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Why Do Americans Need Greater Access to Safe International Online Pharmacies?
The simple answer is that tens of millions of Americans cannot afford prescription drugs here in the United States because they’re too expensive. Meanwhile, drug prices outside the U.S. are much lower...
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Popular OTC Medicines Recalled Due to Manufacturing Problems At U.S. Plant
While PharmacyChecker.com’s main focus is on safe and affordable prescription medication, we are aware that many of our website visitors also take over-the-counter (OTC) products. It’s important to...
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McCain Amendment, CBS News and World Leaders on Online Pharmacies
McCain Amendment. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) introduced an amendment to the Pharmaceutical Drug User Fee Act authorization bill that would create explicitly legal access to and facilitate safe and...
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Fake Adderall Sold Online According to FDA, Warns Consumers
Consumers searching for Adderall online should use extreme caution. The FDA announced that it found fake Adderall, a drug for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Narcolepsy, is being sold...
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PharmacyChecker Informs Surgeon General and HHS On Safe Use of Online...
The problem of Americans not taking medications is caused by high costs of prescription drugs, undesirable side-effects, health literacy, forgetfulness among other reasons. Medication non-adherence is...
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Two Minnesotans Speak Out Against Law Allowing Destruction of Personal Drug...
Americans are speaking out against the provisions of a new law signed by President Obama on July 9th that will hinder their access to safe and affordable medication. In a news story last week on a...
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High Drug Prices Fuel Medicaid Fraud and U.S. Drug Safety Problems
Picture from CNN coverage of the Medicaid Fraud The pharmaceutical industry and FDA seem to want us to buy medicine at high prices. They say it’s dangerous to import cheaper medicine, even though it’s...
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BeSafeRx Misleads American People, Pleases Pharmaceutical Industry
A new U.S. FDA public education campaign called BeSafeRx (www.fda.gov/BeSafeRx) would be much more helpful if it were more truthful. In launching the campaign, designed to alert consumers to the...
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Americans Speak Up in RxRights Video Testimonials About International Online...
We applaud RxRights.org for its critical advocacy efforts on behalf of Americans who are struggling to afford prescription medication, including recent actions to defend the truth about safe...
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PharmacyChecker Advocates for Online Access to Affordable Medication By...
Our vice president, Gabriel Levitt, submitted comments to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to emphasize that the Obama administration’s online pharmacy strategy curtails access by...
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International Online Pharmacy Report for 2013: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
This article summarizes good things and bad that are happening online with drug prices and savings, economics, legislation, politics, and even ethics that relate to access by Americans to more...
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So You Want to Buy Cheap Medicine From an Actual Canadian Pharmacy, Here’s...
(Click here to skip the explanations and view the steps to finding a Canadian online pharmacy) If you’ve seen one of the latest FDA press releases regarding Canadian pharmacies, you might be a little...
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PharmacyChecker.com VP Gabriel Levitt Pens New York Times Op-Ed About the...
Today, the New York Times published an Op-Ed by PharmacyChecker.com Vice President Gabriel Levitt entitled “Scare Tactics over Foreign Drugs” which explains that actions by our government and the...
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Indian Medications Sold at U.S. Pharmacies and Online: What Americans Should...
Americans may be concerned by recent reports in the media about the safety of medications made in India (e.g., the New York Times article “Medicines in India Set off Safety Worries”). Problems with...
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Balanced Reporting About Americans Buying Meds Internationally From Online...
Each year, FDA participates in Pangea, a global operation that identifies and shuts down rogue Internet pharmacies, seizes allegedly dangerous medication, and arrests those responsible. We like that...
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The Online Pharmacy Propaganda Show — In the Lion’s Den Part II
Drug Companies Front and Center at PSM Interchange Conference Two weeks ago I brought you some highlights of the PhRMA-led Partnership for Safe Medicines (PSM) Interchange propaganda show, which was...
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Online Drug Scammers Peddling Fake Ebola Cures
If you receive an e-mail or see a web page offering to sell you anything that cures, prevents, or treats Ebola, you can be sure it’s a scam. That’s because there currently aren’t any drugs that prevent...
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Sen. Sanders Hearing Shines Bright Light on Bizarre U.S. Generic Drug Price...
From Pembroke Consulting, published on DrugChannels.net Yesterday, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) held a hearing in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee on Primary...
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Unused Medication – What Do You Do With It?
PharmacyChecker.com’s focus is on helping consumers find safe and affordable meds online while avoiding rogue pharmacy websites. But what do people do with unused medication? Leaving unused...
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Online Pharmacies, Personal Drug Importation and Public Health: How Many...
25%, 20%, 10%, 5%, 2%, 1%? A few years back, the FDA published the results of a survey from 2012 that showed 23% of Internet users purchase medication online. That number has been used by a variety of...
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Online Pharmacies, Personal Drug Importation and Public Health: Laws...
Is it legal to order medications online? Yes. If you live in the U.S., you can legally order medications online for mail order, such as from Walgreens or CVS. Is it legal to order medications from an...
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How to Shut Down Dangerous Rogue Online Pharmacies without Curtailing Online...
There are potentially tens of thousands of dangerous pharmacy websites, sometimes referred to as “rogue online pharmacies,” polluting the Internet and endangering the health of consumers worldwide....
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Educating American Consumers About Buying Medications From Foreign...
Tens of millions of Americans cannot afford medication, which can lead to more sickness, hospitalizations, and even death. Despite this public health crisis, our trusted regulatory authorities, the...
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Bing’s New Online Pharmacy “Warnings” Are Misguided and Threaten Public Health
Last week, Bing announced a new effort to use its search engine to warn consumers about threats from “fake” online pharmacies. The big problem is that at least some of the online pharmacies they list...
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Brand Name Medications Savings Often Exceed 90% Using International Online...
“Abstract pills” by Robson – Flickr We issued a press release yesterday about our new drug price savings analysis, which shows that consumers can save 84% on average among a basket of 10 popular...
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A New Non-Profit Is Born – Prescription Justice Action Group – To Help...
Today, as the Obama administration hosted a “public” forum (think invitation only) about pharmaceutical innovation, access and affordability, I announced the formation of a non-profit organization...
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Fewer Americans Importing Medications in 2016: Good or Bad? Oh, and Happy New...
As we move out of 2015 and into 2016 with a strong wave of hostility rising throughout the country about high drug prices, what I’m about to report may seem incongruous. Fewer Americans seem to be...
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Money Talks News Is Talking Truth About Affording Medication Online
Too many Americans are being kept in the dark by the very governing authorities and companies that are meant to protect their health. The FDA goes too far in telling Americans not to buy lower cost...
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Can four FDA commissioners be wrong about drug Importation?
Yes. Last week, the four most recent commissioners of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent an open letter to Congress declaring that an importation bill, The Affordable and Safe Prescription Drug...
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What FDA Commissioner Gottlieb’s Mission on Drug Prices Says about Importation
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD This week, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said something revolutionary about the role of the FDA. For many years, the agency has maintained that its sole focus when...
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International Pharmacies Safer Than Your Local Pharmacy? Blister Packs vs....
The verdict is in: blister packs may be a safer bet for packaging your medication. In the U.S. and sometimes in Canada, however, medications are dispensed as loose pills. According to the FDA, over 1.3...
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A Drug Importation Vocabulary Lesson: Misbranded and Unapproved Drugs
Words matter when it comes to drug importation As we close out 2017, personal drug importation via online pharmacies remains a viable lifeline for American patients who can’t afford prices at their...
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New FDA Tests Indicate Imported Drugs Are Safe
FDA Testing Lower-Cost Imported Medications Tens of millions of people have bought medications from foreign pharmacies – despite the technical illegality of importing those medications. According to...
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FDA Plan to Seize Illegal Opioid Imports Could Affect Prescription Deliveries
As reported by the Associated Press, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced a plan earlier this month to stop imports of opioid drugs by doubling the number of inspectors at international mail...
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Omnibus Bill Empowers FDA to Confiscate Imported Drugs
The recently signed appropriations or “omnibus” bill to fund the federal government includes an additional $94 million (Section 778) for the FDA to screen and stop drug imports at international mail...
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50+ Healthcare Providers Identify PharmacyChecker as Resource to Help Patients
More than 50 health professionals signed a letter addressed to President Donald Trump, members of Congress and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asking that we expressly permit personal...
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Is the FDA Misleading Congress About the Safety of Imported Medicines?
Properly licensed foreign pharmacies help Americans access medicines that they can’t afford here. Counterfeit drug makers and sellers, fentanyl and opioid dealers, and dangerous pharmacy websites are...
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Percent of Imported Pharmaceutical Ingredients Apparently Unchanged in 20 Years
According to the FDA, in 2017, 80% of the active pharmaceutical ingredients used to make our medicines are imported. I can’t remember how many times I’ve read (and written) that over the past decade...
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