"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Bad Eggs: Producers of supplements targeting avian flu and flu in general have been put on notice by the FDA for false advertising:
The nine companies are: Sacred Mountain Management Inc., BODeSTORE.com, Melvin Williams, Iceland Health Inc., PolyCil Health Inc., PRB Pharmaceuticals Inc., Chozyn LLC, Vitacost.com and Healthworks 2000.
FDA's acting commissioner, Andrew von Eschenbach, said, "The use of unproven flu cures and treatments increases the risk of catching and spreading the flu rather than lessening it because people assume they are protected and safe and they aren't."
FDA officials said warnings against other companies are expected in the future, and said consumers should avoid products that make unproven claims like these.
It is wrong to make claims for supplements and drugs that aren't sustained by evidence, but how do these claims differ from any other claims made by any other supplement and herbal therapy? posted by Sydney on
12/14/2005 01:17:00 PM
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