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Consumer brochure warning against foreign medicines available

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WASHINGTON — Patients should be warned about the possible health ramifications of buying medications for personal use or ordering medications from foreign sources such as the Internet, says the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.

To help facilitate the dissemination of information, the FDA has information available on its Web site for both consumers and physicians. To view the PDF version, click here. For the HTML version, click here.