On Line Pharmacy News:
Reports From Around The Globe

VANCOUVER Internet Pharmacy Selling Mexican Drugs to Americans
Yahoo News (press release) - USA, Apr 2, 2004
WINNIPEG, April 2 /PRNewswire/ - A Vancouver internet pharmacy company is openly selling Americans prescription medicines from Mexico, approved by neither ...

WEB drug sales to US double
Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USA, Apr 2, 2004
... Canada's Internet pharmacies more than doubled sales to US customers in 2003 to ... according to the analysis by Tim Carter, president of the Pharmacy Alliance for ...

INTERNET pharmacies issue 'cry for help' in face of dwindling ...
Canada.com - Canada, Apr 1, 2004
... Internet pharmacy was formed because there's a lot of money to be made with it," said Greg Skura, a Manitoba retail pharmacist and chairman of the Pharmacy ...

FDA warning doesn't worry Gov. Benson
The Union Leader (subscription) - Manchester,NH,USA, Apr 1, 2004
... Two other medicines requested were not available through the Canadian pharmacy. ... wrong messages: first, anyone can call up or go on-line to an Internet firm and ...

GOVERNOR buys Canadian drugs online
MSNBC - USA, Mar 31, 2004
Craig Benson ordered brand-name medicines from a Canadian online pharmacy for about half the cost of purchasing the same drugs in the United States, the ...

LILLY steps up battle against Canadian Internet pharmacies
USA Today - USA, Mar 31, 2004
... shortage to scare the Canadian public to think the Internet trade is ... Wayne Rivers, president and chief executive of Procurity Pharmacy Services - a Canadian ...

GROWTH in Net drugs
Winnipeg Sun - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada, Mar 31, 2004
... from Canadian Internet pharmacies -- the majority of which are located in Manitoba. Gov. Craig Benson is also endorsing mail-order pharmacy CanadaDrugs.com ...

CANADIAN Rx not cure-all for US costs
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA, Mar 29, 2004
... in the FDA-regulated system, is to shop online at a pharmacy certified through the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy VIPPS (Verified Internet Pharmacy ...

CANADIAN on-line pharmacy sales rise
The Globe and Mail - Canada, Mar 27, 2004
WINNIPEG - Canada's Internet pharmacy industry more than doubled its sales to the United States last year, according to the first published study of annual ...

ONLINE pharmacy biz becomes a magnet for fraud
CTV - Canada, Mar 25, 2004
... We had one (on line pharmacy) in Phoenix that offered Canadian drugs that actually came from India," he told CTV News. "We took action and shut it down. ...

INTERNET pharmacies say they're willing to move to US or expand ...
Canoe.ca - Canada, Mar 23, 2004
... Shipping drugs from within the United States would seem to defeat one of the strongest incentives driving the on line pharmacy industry - that being that drugs ...

SIX Million People Have Bought Prescription Drugs Online; Most ...
PRNewswire (press release) - USA, Mar 23, 2004
... a pharmacy 34 Less satisfied than if you had bought it (or them) from a pharmacy ... ONLINE "How safe do you think it is to order prescription drugs on the Internet ...

ALMOST half of some Manitoba drugs head south via Internet: study
Canada.com - Canada, Mar 22, 2004
... Both the Manitoba and federal governments have said they are carefully monitoring the Internet pharmacy industry but have not found any evidence of troubling ...

INTERNET pharmacies devastating Manitoba's drug supply
Yahoo News (press release) - USA, Mar 22, 2004
WINNIPEG, March 22 /PRNewswire/ - New research released today by the Pharmacy Alliance for Canadians found that internet pharmacy companies are diverting more ...

COUNTERFEIT contraception raises concerns about Internet ...
Rocky Mount Telegram - Rocky Mount,NC,USA, Mar 20, 2004
... Consumers buying prescription drugs on the Internet should make sure the Web site bears the Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Site seal showing the site is ...

HOUSE bill targets Web pharmacies
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA, Mar 19, 2004
... Internet pharmacy sales, including prescription drugs and over-the-counter medicines such as aspirin, will more than double this year to $5 billion from $1.7 ...

US Government Rebukes Wisconsin Prescription Drug Web Site
WBAY - Green Bay,WI,USA, Mar 19, 2004
The federal government tore into Governor Doyle Thursday for helping Wisconsin residents import illegal Canadian prescription drugs through a state Web site. ...

MORE Turn to Israel for Cheaper Drugs
The Jewish Journal - Los Angeles,CA,United States, Mar 18, 2004
... They're not doing it.". In the last two years, the online pharmacy trade out of Canada amounted to $2 billion annually, according to Jacobson.

US Lawmakers Seek to Crack Down on Web Pharmacies
Reuters - London,England,UK, Mar 18, 2004
... information. The Internet Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act would also require face-to-face meetings between patients and doctors. Although ...

BILL Aims to Curb Online Pharmacy Sales
Guardian - UK, Mar 18, 2004
By MARK SHERMAN. WASHINGTON (AP) - Unsolicited e-mails arrive daily across America offering cheap, quick access to prescription drugs. ...

NACDS Calls for Action to Curb Illegal Rogue Internet Pharmacies
PRNewswire (press release) - USA, Mar 18, 2004
NACDS' statement on the Internet Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act (HR 3880) cautioned that traditional pharmacies which have an Internet presence designed to ...

AMA Condemns Illegal Internet Pharmacies; Stresses Importance of ...
PRNewswire (press release) - USA, Mar 18, 2004
... In testimony today before the House Committee on Government Reform, the American Medical Association (AMA) highlighted concerns with illegal Internet pharmacy ...

PRESCRIPTIONS And Profit
CBS New York - New York,NY,USA, Mar 14, 2004
... Mayor Albano concedes that casually buying drugs on the Internet could be risky, but says it was ... It's no different than going to your neighborhood pharmacy. ...

AMERICAN doctor complains about Internet pharmacy´s practices
Portland Maine Press Herald - Portland,ME,USA, Mar 14, 2004
a Winnipeg Internet pharmacy wanted to pay her money for every patient she referred to ...

INTERNET drug sales to the United States resume upward climb in ...
CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse) - Canada, Mar 14, 2004
... The estimate of cross-border sales from Canadian internet pharmacies alone is $815 to $880 million Cdn at internet pharmacy prices to consumers.

OTTAWA must take firmer stand on Internet pharmacy debate: ...
Canada.com - Canada, Mar 10, 2004
... The Canadian International Pharmacy Association, which represents about 40 Internet pharmacies, supports Health Canada's inspections and does not object to ...

CANADIAN Company Gives Local Pharmacies Competition
KXTV - Sacramento,CA,USA, Mar 9, 2004
... be to help people in Sacramento buy prescription drugs from Canada over the Internet. ... than half of what the same medication would cost at a discount pharmacy ...

MEDICAL spam
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA, Mar 7, 2004
... to assure the safety of drugs purchased abroad or over unregulated Internet ... Coleman ordered some allergy medicine from PeopleRx.com, a Canadian Web pharmacy ...

PURCHASING prescription drugs from across the border grows in ...
Quad City Times - Davenport,IA,USA, Mar 7, 2004
... 50 percent less than they would pay only miles away at an American pharmacy ... Internet entrepreneurs and small businesses, including one in the Quad-Cities, are ...

CANADA Med Services still open
WECT - Wilmington,NC,USA, Mar 5, 2004
The North Carolina State Pharmacy Board has ordered one Wilmington company to ... They call themselves an Internet service provider that connects customers with ...

CANADIAN drug firms to get surprise checkups
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA, Mar 4, 2004
... Pfizer admitted Thursday that it mistakenly supplied drugs to two of the Internet pharmacies on Pfizer's list of forbidden customers. Neither pharmacy was ...

INEXPENSIVE drugs from Canada spur many to defy FDA
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA, Mar 4, 2004
... Typically, US residents send their doctors' prescriptions to an online or mail-order pharmacy in Canada, which fills the prescription and mails back the ...

TORONTO Internet pharmacy takes Ottawa to court to clarify export ...
Canada.com - Canada, Mar 3, 2004
(CP) - A Toronto-based Internet pharmacy is taking the federal government to court to try to halt an inspection it says aims to penalize it for selling cheap ...

PENSION Fund Demands Pfizer End Battle Against Canadian Imports
WCCO - Minneapolis,MN,USA, Mar 3, 2004
... wholesalers last week. The week before, it stopped shipping product to several Canadian Internet pharmacies. The resolution demands ...

WIDOW sues Net drugstore, ex-owner
Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USA, Mar 2, 2004
Adding to the legal problems facing a Web pharmacy, a Broward woman files a wrongful ... The wife of a 57-year-old Fort Lauderdale man is suing a former Internet ...

FED drug czar declares war on illegal Net drugs
Newark Star Ledger - Newark,NJ,USA, Mar 2, 2004
... One on line pharmacy, he said, sent Jason drugs monthly. "They would just send it out each month to him. No questions asked. No doctor. No prescription. ...

A bitter pill: Prescription website vexes area druggists
Dunn County News - Menomonie,WI,USA, Mar 1, 2004
... They may be cheaper, but they're not FDA-approved," said John Miller, PharmD., of Red Cedar Medical Center Pharmacy, as he questioned the safety and legality ...

INTERNET sales leave pharmacy short on meds
CBC New Brunswick - New Brunswick,Canada, Mar 1, 2004
Patty Stewart said twice in the last few months her local pharmacy has ... to guarantee that the domestic supply of pharmaceuticals is not compromised by internet ...

INTERNET pharmacies
London Free Press - London,Ontario,Canada, Mar 1, 2004
... When an order comes in, an on line pharmacy passes an American customer's prescription along to a Canadian doctor to sign before filling the prescription. ...

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