Berlin – People who purchase medicines on the internet should check the seller carefully because the risk of counterfeits is high, warned Manfred Schubert-Zsilavecz, president of the Frankfurt- based German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG). Speaking recently in Berlin, Schubert-Zsilavecz said there were ways to distinguish respectable internet pharmacies from shady ones. Customers should also be wary of sellers who advertise very aggressively or who do not require a doctor’s prescription for prescription medicines. According to Schubert-Zsilavecz, internet sales of counterfeit medicines have risen in recent years. It said they included not only lifestyle medicines for things like hair loss or excess weight, but also increasingly medicines for cardiovascular diseases and cancer. read more

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