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• Pill peddlers cough up more spam

  Health care-related e-mail messages, primarily those marketing diet pills and Viagra, were the leading category of spam delivered to in-boxes in November.

• 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.

• Web site accused over anthrax drug sales

  The US Food and Drug Administration has emailed 11 Web sites that it believes to be selling illicit batches of anthrax antibiotics.

• 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.

• Time for an online drug bust?

  The Clinton Administration is looking to crack down on illegal drug sales online. The White House's proposal, which will be submitted to Congress as part of the budget, would give the Federal Drug Administration authority over Net pharmacies, establish federal requirements for online drug sales and set fines and penalties.

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