Increased globalization of the pharmaceutical market has facilitated the unobstructed and fast spread of poor-quality medicines. Poor-quality medicines include spurious/falsely-labeled/falsified/counterfeit drugs (those ...

Over the past decade, the number of countries reporting falsified (fake, spurious/falsely labeled/counterfeit) medicines and the types and quantities of fraudulent drugs being distributed have increased greatly. The obstacles ...

Poor-quality medicines and medical products, both substandard and falsified, cause avoidable morbidity, mortality, drug resistance, and loss of faith in health systems, especially in low-income and middle-income countries.1–3 ...

Background Artemisinin-based combination therapies are recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as first-line treatment for Plasmodium falciparum malaria, yet medication must be of good quality for efficacious ...

Introduction Poor-quality artemisinin-containingantimalarials (ACAs), including falsified and substandardformulations, pose serious health concerns in malariaendemic countries. They can harm patients, contributeto the rise ...

In 2003, a stratified random sample survey was conducted in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos) to study the availability and quality of antimalarials in the private sector. In 2012, this survey was repeated to ...

Colombia y el mundo enfrentan uno de los problemas más difíciles de la salud pública en los últimos tiempos: la falsificación y adulteración de los medicamentos. La magnitud de sus efectos sobre la salud y economía de las ...

Se estudiaron los caracteres morfo-anatómicos de valor diagnóstico de Fumaria officinalis L. y F. capreolata L. “fumaria” o “flor de pajarito”, utilizadas en medicina popular, con el fin de aportar información a controles ...

Antifeminisms can be understood as opposition to feminisms, and they are related to conservatism, religious fundamentalism, and the growing electoral expression of new right parties on the world stage. This research makes ...