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Articles on Fake drugs

October 22, 2025

Cancer drug quality in Africa is a worry: what we found in a 4‑country study

Marya Lieberman, University of Notre Dame

The confirmed presence of substandard or falsified anticancer medicines in sub-Saharan Africa will complicate cancer care.

September 19, 2021

Philippa Martyr, The University of Western Australia

Doctors, nurses, pharmacists and others all had their own cures for the Spanish flu. But some of these may have made things worse.

July 22, 2020

Adejuwon Soyinka, The Conversation and Ozayr Patel, The Conversation

Fake drugs are doing the rounds in Ghana and Nigeria. What can be done about this?

March 31, 2020

Wuraola Akande-Sholabi, University of Ibadan

Nigeria’s reliance on drug importation is worrisome as COVID-19 pandemic rages.

June 24, 2019

Susanne Lundin, Lund University and Rui Liu, Lund University

People are increasingly considering themselves experts on drugs.

Wuraola Akande-Sholabi
Lecturer, University of Ibadan
Philippa Martyr
Lecturer - Women's Health; Pharmacology, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Western Australia
Rui Liu
Researcher, Lund University
Susanne Lundin
Professor of Ethnology, Lund University
Marya Lieberman
Nancy Dee Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame