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Illegal Internet drug sellers often operate overseas, from countries such as Russia, China, India, Mauritius, and Turkey,…Many illegal drug sellers generate tens of millions of dollars annually—35,000-50,000 active online drug sellers, 97 percent do not comply with U.S. laws and 50 percent of medicines sold online are fake or counterfeit,…

AstraZeneca..to help fill its short-term revenue gap by divesting its gastrointestinal drug…for $215 million… rights to Entocort (budesonide ) outside the United States would be acquired by Tillotts Pharma,…

India’s program to fight tuberculosis is in disarray due to a shortage of funds and the government has failed to meet annual targets to control spread…more than 300,000 tuberculosis-related deaths and 2.2 million new cases of TB each year, resulting in…loss of $23 billion..

Aetna kicked off U.S. healthcare insurance M&A with a $37 bln deal to buy Humana. Breakingviews columnists discuss the merits of the transaction and its implications for the industry...

1996 through June 2014, organizations surveyed… have provided more than 150,000 overdose reversal kits containing naloxone to laypersons who have reported 26,463 overdose reversals in that time… recommend providing naloxone kits to laypersons who might witness an opioid overdose; to patients in substance use treatment programs; to persons leaving prison and jail; and as a component of responsible opioid prescribing."

Jason Pierre-Paul, the star defensive end for New York Giants, had one of his fingers amputated …injured in a fireworks accident.., according to a photo of a medical record posted by ESPN’s Adam Schefter…if posted without…consent,…at least one person violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act,..

General Pharmaceutical Council (United Kingdom) has published its annual report for 2014-15, covering its fourth full year in operation.

FDA is evaluating the safety of using medicines containing codeine to treat children under 18 for coughs and colds… may cause slowed or difficult breathing in children, especially for those who already suffer from breathing problems… FDA is also considering a European Medicines Agency recommendation..

Three Ebola-stricken countries will seek nearly $700 million in aid at a U.N. conference this week to rebuild their devastated health care systems,…Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, which are all experiencing a resurgence of the deadly hemorrhagic fever,…

..latest pharmaceutical industry roll-up leaves lots of room to grow. Horizon Pharma’s $1.75 billion unsolicited offer for U.S. rival Depomed continues the sector’s M&A rave fueled by tax savings and cost cuts.