| While browsing the Internet, one may have noted | | | | distant pharmacist is easier than a visit to the |
| that there are thousands of websites, which are | | | | family doctor. While, supplying or sending drugs |
| selling medicines, drugs and other pharmaceutical | | | | and medicines through Internet is illegal and |
| products. These types of websites are called | | | | justifiable, prescribing drugs on Internet bring a |
| online pharmacy websites or online prescription | | | | major health risk to the patients. At the websites |
| website. To much extent they claim to be safe | | | | that prescribes drugs, a patient gets a drug |
| and ethical but the question to be raised is, ‘is | | | | prescribed only by answering a questionnaire |
| it really true'? Are they safe enough to be trusted | | | | provided by the website. Through this |
| by anyone who is looking for something genuine | | | | questionnaire form patient can't tell every single |
| to cure his/her ailment? To be very fair, not all | | | | detail about his health status and body's past |
| the communication between a consumer and an | | | | medical history to the Internet pharmacist. This |
| Online Pharmacy website are wrong. Neither all | | | | exposes patients to dangerous side effects from |
| online drug websites are illegal. | | | | inappropriately prescribed medicines and |
| There is usually no tension until the pharmacy | | | | dangerous drug interactions. Also this self diagnosis |
| websites leaves or skips the most important step | | | | stops a patient from taking the correct and |
| of making sure that a physician who has written a | | | | necessary medical treatment. Mostly websites like |
| prescription is familiar with the patient and his past | | | | the ones trapped by the FDA in recent times was |
| medical history. But indeed, there is a problem | | | | selling drugs without any prescription or any type |
| with this type of selling of drugs over Internet. | | | | of questionnaire. These types of online pharmacy |
| Recently, in the state of Texas in USA, the | | | | websites and all the products sold on these |
| Texas State Board filed a complaint against a | | | | websites can be called illegal, if guidelines given by |
| doctor who worked with the now-banned Web | | | | FDA and WHO are reviewed. Moreover, there are |
| site, The Board suspected that the physician | | | | certain other things to check while approaching an |
| prescribed Viagra over the Internet to around | | | | online pharmacy website. Some of them are; is |
| 1,300 patients without knowing their medical | | | | the website you are about to buy medicines and |
| history or any physical examination. Prescribing | | | | drugs from, certified by square trade |
| any drug in this way brings patients in a very high | | | | organization? If yes, it means that the website is |
| risk zone. In this article, we will try to discover | | | | declared legal for trade after many rounds of |
| answers to many questions like this and more | | | | intensive tests and examinations. After this only, |
| specifically the safety and danger to customers | | | | these websites are allowed to apply a logo of |
| from purchasing drugs online, and scan recent | | | | square trade on their pages. To see whether this |
| initiatives to check the online pharmacy and online | | | | logo is original or the work of an internet scam |
| drug prescription industry. | | | | artist, you need to click on that logo, which will link |
| For those costumers who prefer to go to these | | | | you to the official website of square trade |
| online drug stores because of lower prices they | | | | organization. |
| are offered, convenience and privacy points. Since | | | | The other things are to check whether the online |
| the prices of almost all drugs are lower in other | | | | pharmacy website has hundred percent complete |
| counties than in their countries, these foreign | | | | information of the drug they are selling. Are these |
| pharmacy websites provides consumers a | | | | online drug stores working in cooperation with the |
| cheaper rate alternative. For example a consumer | | | | rules and regulations recommended by FDA and |
| from Canada will pay 20-50 percent less than a | | | | WHO? Whether they are not using outdated and |
| consumer of America for all prescription drugs | | | | expired medicines and are they using medicines |
| available on these online pharmacy websites. So it | | | | and drugs manufactures by top pharmacy |
| is not a surprise that it brings Canadian drug prices | | | | companies? For this they need to be certified by |
| to the world and saves their consumers up to | | | | Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare |
| 50% on all the prescription drugs available. The | | | | Organizations (JCAHO). Whether they are keeping |
| most part of the costumers of these online | | | | you very private and confidential? Are they selling |
| pharmacy websites are the elderly people who | | | | drugs on comparatively lower costs and they are |
| prefer for convenience of ordering and getting | | | | not taking chances with the patient's health to |
| drugs without going out of their home. So finally it | | | | cover the loss done by these lowered prices? |
| can be said that these online pharmacy websites | | | | Some consciousness and awareness and a little |
| allow it's consumers to order the products they | | | | information is all that is needed by all consumers |
| want and consult with a pharmacist in the privacy | | | | from preventing them from getting entangled into |
| of their homes. Because and that is why the | | | | the trap of these online pharmacy websites and |
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