With fakes of the cancer drug Avastin popping up in U.S. clinics in the past few months, patients are naturally worried about whether their medicines are safe.  Considering eighty percent of the ingredients in U.S. medicines come from overseas – mostly from China and India because their products are generally...

A comprehensive study of drug samples in African and Asian countries--assessed for variability by spectrometer--suggests that registered products perform notably better than unregistered products.

The reality is that we simply do not know how efficacious most  drugs really are. 

Drug quality is probably improving in Lagos, the largest city of Nigeria, and Accra, the capital of Ghana, which each have serious problems with substandard pharmaceuticals.

It is vitally important to find all of the root causes of substandard medicines because current policy decisions that concern drug quality often exacerbate problems related to a lack of research.

Fake drugs flourish in areas where government oversight is poor and private-sector accountability is weak, but failing to prevent counterfeit drug sales can have deadly consequences.

Counterfeit drugs present dangers to society and better quality enforcement is important; it is also important to help people know how to tell whether medicines are safe to use.

As Beijing attempts to address the latest food scandal to rock China, countries around the world are demanding action to prevent the spread of contamination.