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  • Illegal drug sales booming online

    The quantity of illegal and possibly unsafe pharmaceutical drugs being sold online is increasing, according to a report from the International Narcotics Control Board.

  • Online medicine: A bitter pill

    In their rush to make a name for themselves, online companies have underestimated the monumental difficulties of integrating the massively outdated technologies used to run the medical business.

  • Search engines face drug test

    A major U.S. pharmacy trade group is pressuring Web-based search engines to ban advertisements from unlicensed drug dealers, highlighting growing pains for the Net's newest marketing powerhouses.

  • US major source of Internet drug sales

    The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) reported that there has been an increase in dealers using cyberspace to market narcotics and mind-altering drugs illegal in most countries. Its annual report says Internet pharmacies are shipping prescription-only drugs across the globe.

  • The Internet preps for a medical miracle

    Internet-savvy consumers, hungry for health information, may spark a revolution in personalised medicine that experts say will send shock waves through insurers, employers, doctors, pharmaceutical companies and the Internet itself.

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  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

    US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

  • McKesson Corp: Randy Spratt, CIO

    McKesson is America's oldest and largest health care services company. In this CIO Vision Series interview, Randy Spratt explains IT's critical role across the organisation.

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