New Technology Combats Global Pandemic of Drug Counterfeiting
Sunday, August 19, 2012 - 10:30
in Health & Medicine
Drug counterfeiting is so common in some developing countries that patients with serious diseases in Southeast Asia and elsewhere have been more likely to get a fake drug than one with ingredients that really treat their illness, a scientist involved in combating the problem said here today at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.