Every day patients receive treatments that do not work properly. For many this means no relief from symptoms, but for some death is the result. Yet concerted action against such products is limited. Before we can discuss why that's the case, I will attempt to explain what kind of products don’t work, and what we should call them.

There are many website pharmacies, including those from overseas, from which it is almost certainly safe to procure medicines, and U.S. consumers should be able to reduce their risk by relying on credentialing agencies recommended lists and by using common sense when examining packaging and pills.

This study examines the price, conditions of purchase, and basic quality of five popular drugs purchased over the Internet.

While India is blamed for counterfeiting crucial drugs, a vast Chinese network behind the fakes is getting away.

Illegally copying a trademark is an important indicator of counterfeiting, although not necessarily of substandard drug quality.

The majority of the antimalarial products on sale in Kenya are neither brands nor generics but copy products of unknown provenance and variable quality.

The claim that 20-somethings are more likely to believe they will see flying saucers than collect from Social Security is exaggerated.

Even comparative effectiveness proposals will hamper new drug development.