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Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".
Pharmaceutical fraud is when pharmaceutical companies engage in illegal, fraudulent activities to the detriment of patients and/or insurers. Examples include counterfeit drugs that do not contain the active ingredient, false claims in packaging and marketing, suppression of negative information regarding the efficacy or safety of the drug, and violating pricing regulations.
The following list encompasses notable medicine contamination and adulteration incidents. 1937 Elixir sulfanilamide incident: S. E. Massengill Company used diethylene glycol as the solvent for the antibacterial sulfanilamide , leading to the 1938 passage of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act .
If you purchased drugs online or at a so-called telepharmacy, you could be a target for extortionists, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns. The FDA issued a warning that people posing as ...
Reading details like this may make it seem like an obvious scam, but for Boivin, the story added up. Like many victims, she was likely targeted because her background made her likely to trust ...
The scams can be personalized and targeted at people who've shown some interest in weight-loss drugs, using information collected about them and their browsing habits, said Iskander Sanchez-Rola ...
Many drugs have more than one name and, therefore, the same drug may be listed more than once. Brand names and generic names are differentiated by capitalizing brand names. See also the list of the top 100 bestselling branded drugs , ranked by sales.
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