An alarming 62 percent of medications purchased through online pharmacies are fake or substandard, according to a comprehensive report  from the European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines. The report - ''The Counterfeiting Superhighway'' - provides an in-depth analysis of more than 100 online pharmacies. It looked at common ...

Florida state officials and law enforcement are calling for extra policing of the sleeping pills after a school official fell asleep behind the wheel of his car in a Taco Bell drive-through, reports The Ledger. Jose Farinas, the Polk County School District's director of employee relations said he took a zolpidem tartrate sleep pill just before ...

Even if you have an experienced hand in prescribing and formulating meds, it can be difficult to keep up with all of the data and updates from the Food and Drug Administration.Our April Drug Data article, ''Not the Stuff Dreams Are Made Of'' discussed some concerns surrounding sedative-hypnotic medications - the subject of an FDA advisory last ...