The world’s medicine supply is under attack. From Pakistan, where 120 patients died of a fake heart medicine, to the United States, where 32 patients are dead and hundreds are hospitalized due to contaminated steroids, regulators are finding their defenses overwhelmed by shoddy drug companies and even organized criminals who make fake drugs containing no active ingredients. Probably at least 100,000 people die every year from substandard and falsified medicines for cancer, heart disease, infectious diseases, and other ailments.
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