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Anesthesiology News PresentsAuthor: Anesthesiology News, Paul Bufano
Anesthesiology News will be publishing a new season of our popular podcast series, On the Case and Ask the Experts. On the Case is a review series that features the authors of our popular case report series. We hear the behind-the-scenes story on the most unique clinical case studies published in the magazine directly from the professionals who managed them. The first episode of this new season features an interview with L. Jane Stewart, MD, JD, MPH, who co-wrote a case report about a patient who experienced a unique complication from a scopolamine patch. Ask the Experts is an interview series that features leading anesthesia experts on topics ranging from airway management to medical mission work and the future of anesthesia practice models. The first episode of this new season will feature an interview with William Rosenblatt, MD, who was a co-author of the new American Society of Anesthesiologists difficult airway guidelines. __________________________________________ "Anesthesiology News presents The Etherist celebrated the 175th anniversary of the original Ether Day by looking back at the origin of anesthesiology as a modern medical specialty. Join us as we revisit those early days of discovery and innovation and the people who made it all possible, but we wont stop with the history of anesthesia. This season we will also dive into the emergence of new research that has revealed the basic effects of how anesthetic drugs work in the first place. Language: en Genres: Health & Fitness, Medicine, News Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Are My Meds Real? Counterfeit Production on the Rise
Episode 19
Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
As many popular medications in the United States have continued to increase in price, there has been a related rise in the number of counterfeit medications being produced and sold, specifically online. Reports of fraudulent medications include opioids, cancer drugs, erectile dysfunction medications and weight-loss medications. As such, both the FDA and the FBI have posted warnings of counterfeit medications, such as Ozempic (semaglutide, Novo Nordisk). "I unfortunately got to meet a patient taking a counterfeit for Ozempic. And in researching this patient I discovered that this is not only a problem here in the United States, but it's a problem worldwide," said Peter J. Papadakos, MD, a professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine, and the director of critical care medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, in New York. "You name a class of drug, and if it's expensive, it's being counterfeit and sold on the internet." According to the agencies, many of these illegally manufactured “medications” contain no active pharmaceutical ingredients (or correct ingredients in the incorrect quantity), whereas some contain illicit ingredients, including fentanyl and methamphetamine, which can result in overdose and death.
