Blog News

Below is a listing of post releases in chronological order from PharmacyCheckerBlog.com, with the most recent at the top.

• July 10, 2020 A Step-by-Step Look at Fake Counterfeit Drug Stats
• July 2, 2020 How JAMA & Kaiser Family Foundation Studies Have Concluded Millions of U.S. Adults Import Medications
• June 26, 2020 Transatlantic Drug Regulatory Cooperation: Moving Beyond Canada
• June 19, 2020 WHO’s public health efforts go beyond pandemics
• June 12, 2020 WHO Needs to Study Online Pharmacy Drug Safety
• June 4, 2020 NABP and Opioid Death in the U.S.
• May 29, 2020 Potential Importance of Personal Importation Will Rise as Tens of Millions Lose Health Insurance
• May 22, 2020 Even Drugs Manufactured in America are not “Made in the USA”
• May 13, 2020 Ending Big Pharma’s Co-pay Cards as Deductibles Hurts Consumers
• May 8, 2020 Gilead says remdesivir is not sold online and they are correct
• May 1, 2020 Trump’s Pakistani Imported Chloroquine Phosphate: FDA Inspections vs. EU Testing to Ensure Drug Safety
• April 23, 2020 Counterfeit Chloroquine Doesn’t Treat Covid-19; Does Genuine Chloroquine?
• April 17, 2020 FDA Seizures of Mail-order Prescriptions Increase in the Time of Coronavirus
• April 8, 2020 Canada’s Message to the U.S. on Drug Importation: We care more about our citizens than you.
• April 3, 2020 PharmacyChecker Online Pharmacy Authentication Role Recognized in OECD/EU Report on Counterfeit Drugs
• March 27, 2020 EpiPen Malfunctions and High Prices are an American-made Problem
• March 20, 2020 Former FDA Commissioner Gottlieb says ‘Canadians have safe drugs’
• March 11, 2020 Comments on Notice of Proposed Rulemaking titled “Importation of Prescription Drugs, FDA-2019-N-5711, 84 Fed. Reg. 70796”
• March 6, 2020 Politifact Says Drug Prices are Four Times Higher in the U.S. Than Other Countries: Mostly True.
• February 28, 2020 What is a “legitimate” drug or online pharmacy?
• February 21, 2020 The Drug Reimportation Law Curtails Wholesale Not Personal Importation: Who Knew?
• February 14, 2020 When FDA-Approved Generics Fail: Brand Wellbutrin XL Antidepressant is Cheaper from Canada
• February 7, 2020 U.S. Pharmacy Chains Harm Patients With Medication Errors; NABP Appears Silent
• January 30, 2020 Shkreli is sued for monopolizing Daraprim. But what ever happened to Azar’s single source drug import plan?
• January 23, 2020 Amazon Pharmacy is going international. Will that lower drug prices?
• January 16, 2020 Should Blink Health advertise Canadian drugs on Google?
• January 10, 2020 Can you trust Turkey-approved Alipza? Is it the same as U.S.-Approved Livalo?
• January 4, 2020 Section 804’s Conflicting Standards for Personal vs. Wholesale Drug Importation and Why it Matters
• December 26, 2019 Investing In The U.S. Health System By Lowering Drug Prices, Reducing, Out-of-Pocket Costs and Improving the Medicare Benefit
• December 20, 2019 Trump Administration Announces FDA-Proposed Rule and Guidance to Allow Prescription Drug Importation
• December 12, 2019 Through the Looking Glass: Is FDA really the “Gold Standard” in Drug Safety?
• December 5, 2019 China Opens the Door to Personal Medicine Imports and Third-Party Online Platform Sales
• November 28, 2019 Happy Thanksgiving from the UN IGF in Berlin
• November 21, 2019 Hitting Pause on Criticism of the FDA, Just for Today
• November 15, 2019 Lower-Cost Imported Drugs Can Save Lives
• November 8, 2019 Canadian Ambassador Says Canada’s Too Small For America’s Drug Import Program. Now What?
• November 1, 2019 Recommended Reading: “The Toxic Nationalism of the Pharmaceutical Industry”
• October 25, 2019 Consumers Missing from Bloomberg’s Investigative Reporting on PhRMA and Importation
• October 18, 2019 Helping Congress Learn More about Foreign Pharmacy Prices
• October 11, 2019 FDA Drafts Guidance to Allow Lower-Cost Foreign Drug Imports From Any Country
• October 4, 2019 Trump’s Campaign Website’s Only Drug Prices Policy Was Importation
• September 26, 2019 House Ways and Means Report Recommends Looking Abroad for Lower Drug Prices… Kind of…
• September 20, 2019 Immigrants Buying Meds on the Street: A Problem of High Drug Prices and Fears of Deportation
• September 13, 2019 A Bittersweet Day: PharmacyChecker vs. Big Pharma
• September 4, 2019 Top Economist Says the FDA Should be Identifying Safe Foreign Pharmacies to Solve High Drug Prices in America
• August 30, 2019 Opioid Dealer Johnson & Johnson Fined $572 Mil for Contributing to 6,000 American Deaths
• August 23, 2019 Google and Bing doing Big Pharma’s dirty work? Sign this petition to #StopBigPharma
• August 16, 2019 PharmacyChecker vs. Big Pharma Front Groups and Allies
• August 9, 2019 Grassley’s History of Safe Drug Importation Support
• August 2, 2019 Trump Administration Opens Door to Drug Importation Programs
• July 26, 2019 Verify Online Pharmacies if Going International with PharmacyChecker Alternative to NABP’s Program
• July 19, 2019 Drug Importation Must Extend to the EU and Japan, Not Just Canada
• July 11, 2019 Faster FDA Approvals Don’t Affect Generic Drug Availability or Cost
• July 2, 2019 Public Comment to the WHO About Online Access to Imported Medicines and SDG 3.8
• June 27, 2019 Non-Partisan Support of Prescription Drug Importation State Laws Deviate from the National Political Norm
• June 21, 2019 Amazon’s Pharmacy Should Support Importation to Offer Lower Drug Prices
• June 20, 2019 Caravans to Canada for Lower-Cost Insulin Are Not Necessary to Import Safely
• June 13, 2019 Wholesale Drug Importation; It’s Nothing Personal
• June 6, 2019 JAMA Reports Higher U.S. Brand Drug Prices; PharmacyChecker Reports Savings Internationally
• May 31, 2019 ‘Bottle of Lies’ Author Katherine Eban: Dispense as Written