Mr. Lothar Dueck

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  Published on: 12/8/2004    Last Visited: 8/9/2008  

  Lothar Dueck, a community pharmacist in Vita, Manitoba and President of the Coalition for Manitoba Pharmacy, praised comments made over the week-end regarding internet pharmacy by the Canadian Minister of Health."The Minister called cross-border drug trading practices unethical and unprofessional, and he's absolutely right," said Dueck.

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  Published on: 3/2/2004    Last Visited: 10/19/2004  

  Lothar Dueck, president of the Coalition for Manitoba Pharmacy, said he is under restrictions by U.S. drug companies and often must call colleagues to scrounge enough medicine to fill prescriptions for his customers in Vita near the U.S. border.Recently he ran out of Imuran, a drug used to treat immune system deficiencies such as lupus.
  
  "I don't want to see our health system decimated by forcing Canadians to compete with Americans for our drug supply," Dueck said.

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  Published on: 11/17/2004    Last Visited: 8/9/2008  

  "The Minister deserves credit for listening to the experts and those most affected," said Lothar Dueck, President of the Coalition for Manitoba Pharmacy, which since 2003 has been fighting the diversion of Canadian medicines to the U.S. "The Canadian Medical Association, the Canadian Pharmacists Association and provincial medical and pharmacy regulators have all spoken out on this issue.Canadian patients, seniors, academics and various policy think tanks have also called on the government to act.Now the government is doing the responsible thing and we are hoping that all parties in Parliament will unite to make the necessary changes to the law, as quickly as possible."
  
  Dueck said he feels little sympathy for the internet pharmacy lobby group, which is complaining that its members will be hurt by the crackdown.

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  Published on: 12/3/2003    Last Visited: 10/5/2008  

  "Pharmacy and medical authorities across Canada and the United States have made it crystal clear that internet pharmacy is bad for Canadians and bad for Americans," said Lothar Dueck, president of the Coalition for Manitoba Pharmacy.
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  "We are calling on the federal government to act before this problem gets any worse," said Dueck.

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  Published on: 10/25/2005    Last Visited: 11/16/2008  

  Lothar Dueck, president of the Coalition of Manitoba Pharmacies, called the move unprecedented, saying he has never seen a drug maker suspend sales of its own product in his 28 years as a pharmacist.
  
  "Enormous amounts of the capsules are being gobbled up and hoarded by panicking Canadians," Mr. Dueck said in a telephone interview from Ottawa last night, where he is attending a meeting of health ministers from around the world discussing pandemic preparations.
  
  "The drug company is doing what our government should be doing -- it's protecting the Canadian drug supply."
  
  A Health Canada spokesman could not be reached for comment last night.
  
  Mr. Dueck said he believed Internet pharmacies, which ship across Canada and also to the United States, were responsible for a chunk of the increased sales.

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  Published on: 10/21/2003    Last Visited: 5/27/2004  

  Manitoba pharmacist Lothar Dueck, who formed the Coalition for Manitoba Pharmacy last year to lobby against on-line sales, claims shortages are already here.
  
  "Pharmacists are spending a lot more time and money on the phone trying to source drugs they don't have from other drugstores and wholesalers."
  
  Of course, nobody knows exactly what constitutes a shortage, because disruptions in the distribution chain can often leave drugstores without a specific medicine for several days.
  
  Mr. Dueck also raises another concern.
  
  He worries that drug companies are dragging their heels on launching new drugs in Canada because of price controls and potential lost profits from Internet sales.
  
  "It's impossible to know how soon many of the dozen or so new therapies that have been approved by Health Canada will be put on the market."
  
  He points to Aventis Pharma Inc.'s Lantus insulin, which was approved by Health Canada in 2002 but isn't being sold yet, and Gilead Sciences Inc.'s once-daily Viread HIV tablets, which went on sale two months ago, 12 months after regulatory approval.

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  Published on: 6/29/2005    Last Visited: 6/29/2005  

  "The Minister of Health deserves credit for sticking to his guns and telling the U.S. that the medicine cabinet is closed," said Lothar Dueck, President of the Coalition for Manitoba Pharmacy.

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  Published on: 10/19/2004    Last Visited: 10/19/2004  

  Lothar Dueck, president of the Coalition for Manitoba Pharmacy, said he is under restrictions by U.S. drug companies and often must call colleagues to scrounge enough medicine to fill prescriptions for his customers in Vita near the U.S. border.Recently he ran out of Imuran, a drug used to treat immune system deficiencies such as lupus.
  
  "I don't want to see our health system decimated by forcing Canadians to compete with Americans for our drug supply,'' Dueck said.

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  Published on: 2/23/2004    Last Visited: 3/1/2004  

  "Drug reimportation is a political solution to a health crisis," said Lothar Dueck, president of the Coalition for Manitoba Pharmacy.
  
  "It's dangerous, ill-conceived and unworkable," said Dueck, scheduled to speak Tuesday at another Washington forum opposing the cross-border prescription drug trade.

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  Published on: 12/8/2004    Last Visited: 12/8/2004  

  Lothar Dueck, a community pharmacist in Vita, Manitoba and President of the Coalition for Manitoba Pharmacy, praised comments made over the week-end regarding internet pharmacy by the Canadian Minister of Health."The Minister called cross-border drug trading practices unethical and unprofessional, and he's absolutely right," said Dueck.
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  Louise Binder and Lothar Dueck are in Ottawa and available to the media

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