Fighting misinformation likely will not be successful, the FDA commissioner concedes, but stakeholders should join the campaign to increase the dissemination of truthful information.
Robert Califf has resigned himself to the fact that the US Food and Drug Administration’s strategy of waging a full-frontal assault on misinformation has to change.
Califf, the FDA’s commissioner, who began his second term wanting to fight the proliferation of incorrect and misleading information about...
Cindy Eckert’s social media post with a People.com story failed to include any risk information, made misleading representations about benefits and omitted material information about the indication, said the agency, which flagged similar concerns about an Addyi radio ad five years ago.
Two pharmacies, a medical spa and a telehealth company voluntarily removed efficacy, safety and quality claims for compounded GLP-1 products after innovator companies filed challenges with the National Advertising Division.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said a policy that would remove the tax write-off for pharma advertising expenses would be coming in a few weeks.
Webpages, a healthcare professional pamphlet and a medical conference exhibit booth panel make unsupported comparative superiority claims about generic torsemide products and misrepresent risks, the Office of Prescription Drug Promotion says in its first warning letter of 2025.
Julian Beach, interim executive director of healthcare quality and access at the UK drug regulator, the MHRA, tells the Pink Sheet how the agency is responding to increased efforts to develop bacteriophage therapies.
Two pharmacies, a medical spa and a telehealth company voluntarily removed efficacy, safety and quality claims for compounded GLP-1 products after innovator companies filed challenges with the National Advertising Division.
The EU must renew the mandate of its Health Emergency Response Authority to support medicine stockpiles and enable agile manufacturing to combat antimicrobial resistance and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats, says trade organization EUCOPE.
