
|Articles|July 20, 2012
How Fake Cancer Drugs Entered U.S.
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From the outskirts of Winnipeg, Kris Thorkelson's Canada Drugs grew to become a vital link for American consumers stung by high drug prices. The Internet pharmacy had by the middle part of the last decade filled millions of U.S. prescriptions with low-cost, Canadian supplies of everything from Inc.'s cholesterol pill Lipitor to PLC's asthma treatment Advair.
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Source: The Wall Street Journal
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