A Richmond, Virginia, doctor named Torino Jennings is accused of signing up to 100,000 illegal prescriptions for the muscle relaxant Soma, as well as other drugs, over the past five years. The prescriptions are illegal because he issued them on behalf of an online pharmacy without first examining the patients in person.
Many rogue online [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Online pharmacy safety'
Doctor busted for signing up to 100,000 illegal online prescriptions
June 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Buy prescriptions online · Online pharmacies · Online pharmacy safety
VIDEO: Watch this 13-year-old buy Prozac online
April 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
Here’s a well-produced report on the dangers of remote-consultation Internet pharmacies from the Pensacola, Fla., Fox affiliate. Since this piece originally aired last year, Hogan’s Pharmacy, one of the pharmacies exposed in the story, has been shut down and the pharmacist indicted.
Tags: Drug safety · Online pharmacies · Online pharmacy safety
Explaining the HONcode
April 20th, 2009 · No Comments
With the proliferation of so-called authorities watching over health Web sites and online pharmacies today, I thought it might be helpful to write occasionally about some of the authorities that are actually worth relying upon as a consumer. These include Pharmacy Checker.com, CIPA, MIPA and IMPAC for online pharmacies, and the Health on the [...]
Tags: Online pharmacies · Online pharmacy safety
Who’s abusing Google ads? No, it’s not online pharmacies — it’s Big Pharma
April 13th, 2009 · 5 Comments
When the topic of Americans buying drugs from Canadian pharmacies comes up, one company whose name is rarely mentioned is Google. That’s odd to me, since (1) Google is such a news magnet, and (2) without Google, far fewer Americans would be buying their prescription drugs from Canadian pharmacies.
Big Pharma despises Google for [...]
Tags: FDA · Online pharmacies · Online pharmacy safety
Which online pharmacy ads can you trust?
February 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Computerworld posted an interesting story today on how fly-by-night advertising companies are working with spammers to place text-link ads (like the Google AdWords ads you see on the right-hand side of the page when you run a Google search) on the Web sites of bloggers.
One reason these companies are working to get their [...]
Tags: Online pharmacies · Online pharmacy safety
Nine tips for becoming a smarter consumer
December 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments
From the Raleigh News & Observer via the Consumer World blog, here are nine tips for becoming a smarter consumer:
1. Haggle.
2. Check for discounts.
3. Complain more.
4. Read the fine print.
5. Do your homework and get second opinions.
6. Get help.
7. Save for a rainy day.
8. Plan for retirement.
9. Maintain your car.
Go here for the [...]
Tags: Drug costs · Online pharmacies · Online pharmacy safety · Prescription drugs
Internet pharmacy spammers wish you a Merry Christmas
December 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Got this one in the inbox today. It just screams credibility, doesn’t it?
I’m sure we don’t need to remind our readers of this, but just in case a new visitor doesn’t already know this: NEVER RESPOND TO A SPAM SOLICATION OF ANY KIND OVER THE INTERNET — ESPECIALLY FROM AN ONLINE PHARMACY! [...]
Tags: Online pharmacies · Online pharmacy safety
Update on the Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008
September 30th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Alex Sicre, who I follow on Twitter, sent me a note to remind me that H.R. 6353 had passed in the House of Representatives last week. It was received in the Senate last Thursday and is expected to pass there as well.
In the face of Congress’ apparent bumbling of the $700 billion financial bailout [...]
Tags: Online pharmacies · Online pharmacy safety
How CanadaDrugs.com dispenses prescription drugs
September 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments
When you’re on the right side of an argument, people with a vested interest in defeating you will try almost anything to win. So it is with the big-money opponents of Canadian drug reimportation, who have been pulling out all the stops to convince Americans that buying medications from properly licensed Canadian pharmacies is [...]
Tags: Canadian drugs · Drug reimportation · Online pharmacies · Online pharmacy safety · Prescription drugs
Forbes throws out the baby with the bath water
August 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The first six words of Andy Greenberg’s Tuesday story in Forbes are about all I needed to read: “In the shady world of online pharmacies…”
Oh boy — here we go again.
Hey, I know there are a lot of rogue pharmacies out there. That’s why I started eDrugSearch.com — to help people avoid rogue [...]
Tags: Canadian drugs · Drug reimportation · Online pharmacies · Online pharmacy safety


