The FDA has created a new online resource to help consumers recognize and protect themselves from health scams, fraud and bogus health products:
When you buy drugs over the Internet, how do you know what your getting? Well, you don’t if you buy from some sites. So how to tell if a site is legitimate? The FDA has some tips.
Some health providers are offering patients health-care credit cards to help pay for care. But some patients charge they’ve been swindled.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has listed 40 Web sites that the FDA says are illegally selling unapproved products that claim to treat or prevent H1N1 “swine flu”. Under U.S. law, a company cannot market a product with the claim it can diagnose, prevent, treat, or cure a disease unless it has obtained [...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has an informative guide on how to protect yourself from health fraud. The guide describes common types of fraud, ranging from fraudulent cancer and arthritis cures to bogus weight-loss and sexual enhancement products. The guide lists common “red flags” that often are a tip off that the product [...]
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