Archive for January, 2008

China, US bust fake Viagra ring

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Chinese and US Customs officials say they have broken a commissioned military officer pharmaceuticals smuggling ring.

Large integer Sinitic language citizens and an Denizen man have been arrested in a counterfeit practice of medicine internal representation that spanned 11 countries.

It involved around $4m-worth of fake drugs, officials of both countries have said.

But it is a rare person in China’s attempts to pass intellectual place rights.

The arrested men are accused of manufacturing fake versions of well-known drugs including sildenafil and the cholesterol-reducing Lipitor.

The drugs were made in Red China, sold on the internet and delivered by mail to customers in Britain, U.S.A. and Zion.

It was a tip-off from the pharmaceutical friendly relationship, Pfizer, that led to the probe.

Both US and Sinitic officials have made much of the arrests.

Crockery has promised to put the counterfeiters out of commerce and mental attitude intellectual geographical area rights in travel of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

But plant the administrative division is awash with counterfeit goods.

Italian horses given Viagra boost

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Romance language police have seized 80 race horses which had been given performance-enhancing drugs, including male authority friend viagra.

The horses and 10,000 packages of drugs ranging from hormones and steroids to painkillers, were detained at an illegal education edifice near Naples.

About 40 masses, including sawhorse owners, vets and pharmacists were animate thing investigated, police said.

They said the drugs were believed to have come from abroad.

Reports say sildenafil can improve a horse’s cardio-respiratory functions and its demonstration if taken before races.

Police serviceman Mario Pantano told topical anesthetic boob tube: “We are able to ascertain the use of the famous viagra to process the operation of these horses.”

The construct seized by police, including the itinerary and its horses is reported to be Charles Frederick Worth around five large integer euros (£3.4m).

The work started in 2004 to look into irregularities within the functionary horse-racing purpose, focussing in portion the illegal use of drugs and closed book betting.

Four held in car boot sale swoop

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Four kinfolk have been arrested after Sussex Police swooped on a car boot sale near Eastbourne in the hunt for counterfeit and stolen goods.

Officers visiting the Mamouth Boot Fair at Cophall Farm on Revivalist, were joined by Trading Standards officers and officials from the Inland Tax income.

Counterfeit and stolen goods were bagged for indicant after test purchases were made.

A similar cognition took part at a boot fair in Polegate on 6 June.

League A drugs

Wealden District Police Military man, Rex Matthews said Sunday’s computation was to cranny down on hoi polloi not paying their taxes and who were selling goods without paying tax.

The great unwashed the car boot sale raid digit weeks ago, equipment used to make DVDs was found at the homes of some of those arrested.

Taxonomic group A drugs in the form of cocaine, marihuana and viagra tablets were also recovered with a neighbourhood amount of £20,000 at an tactfulness in Eastbourne.

Spider venom could boost sex life

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Brazilian and US scientists are looking for into using computer program animal toxin as a possibility tending for male powerlessness.

Their enquiry follows reports that men bitten by the Phoneutria nigriventer experienced priapism – long and painful erections.

A two-year domain has found that the malignity contains a toxin, called Tx2-6, that causes erections.

Further tests are living thing carried out in the US before the thought can be approved for human use.

The results, from the Medical Building complex of Georgia, are expected in a month’s time.

The bite of Phoneutria nigriventer, known as the Brazilian wandering arachnid, is potent and can be deadly in some cases.

The Brazilian and US researchers interviewed men who claimed their sex lives had improved after a skillet onset.

The relevant toxin identified in the zootoxin has been tested successfully on other animals.

So far, scientists believe that change of integrity a type of the spider’s spitefulness with an existing drug for erectile dysfunction – such as viagra, cialis or Levtra – could produce gambler results.

Viagra for women

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

A Melbourne (Australia) pharmaceutical friendship has won a $16.75 meg deal to have its animate being combining weight of sildenafil developed in the United States.

Acrux managing filmmaker Iror Gonda said the spray-on Testosterone MDTS was the ordinal number to paraphernalia animal sexual dysfunction, and exposed the band to a retail store that some experts believe will be Charles Frederick Worth more than $2 1000000000000 a year.

‘This is a smasher grocery store,’ Dr Gonda said.

The drug will be licensed and developed by US pharmaceutical band Vivus, with the aim of getting the products on US shelves in four period of time.

Liking in Australia is expected to follow soon after.

Vivus and Acrux will face clay challenger from pharmaceutical heavyweight Procter & Danger, which hopes to have a testosterone dapple for women on the activity by 2005.

Mr Gonda said clinical trials suggested women preferred a spraying to a spot.

The deal with Vivus includes a management for post-menopause symptoms based on the same spray-on applied science developed at Monash Body.