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If you’re shopping for medication on the Internet, you probably want to save money, not lose it. So if you get a call from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) busting you for an international purchase, just hang up.
The FDA says scam artists claiming to be “FDA special agents” have been phoning people and threatening them with prison if they don’t cough up a pile of cash, typically thousands of dollars. (Don’t be fooled if the phone number looks like the caller is in the United States—the FDA says the scammers are hiding the numbers by calling from cell phones or computers “ported” to other computers.) Read More
As the economy staggers like Mr. Magoo in a bar brawl, it gets harder to stay healthy by conventional but costly means, such as visiting your doctor or joining a gym.
Patients and health-care providers are all over the Internet: Patients talk to each other and organize into disease-specific networks, while HMOs build websites that allow members to check billing, look up doctors, and sometimes upload medical test results and other data.
