public health measures to fight counterfeit medicine market

Public Health Measures to Fight Counterfeit Medicine Market

DEAR EDITOR, World Health Organization defines a counterfeit medicine as the one which is deliberately and fraudulently mislabeled with respect to identity and/ or source. It incorporates both branded and generic products and even includes products with correct/ wrong/insufficient/no active ingredients, or fake packaging. However, the European Union has proposed falsified medicines as a more ap...

Public Veterinary Medicine: Public Health

Vet Med Today: Public Veterinary Medicine 1271 I has been estimated that 64% of the more than 1,400 recognized human pathogens are zoonotic, and that 73% of 177 emerging or reemerging pathogens have originated in animals. Recently, agricultural professionals in routine contact with animals have been shown to have increased risks of contracting various zoonotic infections, with infected individu...

Public Veterinary Medicine: Public Health

JAVMA, Vol 234, No. 5, March 1, 2009 M than 90% of all laboratory-confirmed cases of rabies in Texas each year occur in wildlife species, with skunks and bats typically being the most commonly affected species. An analysis of reports of laboratory-confirmed cases of rabies in Texas revealed that skunks were the most commonly affected species during 14 of the 20 years from 1988 through 2007, and...

China's counterfeit medicine trade booming.

Public Health and Medicine

Public health and medicine approach the challenge of health and health care from distinct, complementary perspectives (Table 1). In medicine, the ocus is on the individual patient, within the context of amily and community. In public health, the focus is on he health of populations, with the expression of illness ound in the lives of individuals. Medicine draws mainly n the biological sciences,...

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