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Use of Animal Model of Sepsis to Evaluate Novel Herbal Therapies
Published on: April 11, 2012
草药产品在互联网上进行营销
Charles A Morris1, Jerry Avorn
1Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02120, USA. camorris@partners.org
JAMA
|September 18, 2003
概括
草药补充剂的在线索赔通常会误导消费者,许多网站在没有适当的免责声明的情况下做出与疾病有关的断言. 这些流行的食补充剂需要更严格的监管.
科学领域:
- 草药和消费者健康信息.
- 食补充剂的监管格局.
背景情况:
- 1994年的食补充剂健康和教育法限制了FDA对食补充剂的监督.
- 互联网是消费者寻求有关草药疗法的信息的主要来源.
研究的目的:
- 评估在线提供的8种最销的草药产品的信息和健康声明.
- 评估遵守有关健康主张和免责声明的监管指南.
主要方法:
- 在 5 个主要的搜索引擎中搜索了 8 种流行的草药补充剂 (例如,金科比洛巴,圣约翰草药).
- 分析了443个符合条件的英语网站的搜索结果第一页的健康内容.
- 记录的网站类型,赞助链接,引用,说明,索赔和免责声明,根据FDA标准对索赔进行分类.
主要成果:
- 76%的分析网站是以零售为导向的.
- 81%的零售站点提出健康声明,其中55%声称可以治疗或治愈特定疾病.
- 52%的健康主张网站遗漏了联邦免责声明;只有12%提供了没有供应商链接的参考信息.
结论:
- 消费者可能会被在线草药产品的无根据的与疾病相关的说法所误导.
- 医生应该意识到这种易于获取的,潜在的误导性信息的普遍性.
- 加强监管是必要的,以确保草药产品符合与其他药物可比的基于证据的标准.
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