Wishful thinking, but next up should be homeopathic snake-oil.
No company should have a homeopathic product sitting on the shelf next to an actual medicine.
No company should have a homeopathic product sitting on the shelf next to an actual medicine.
It sounds like it's serving a useful purpose.
> "I know so many people… hell, I've done this myself, I've bought [a homeopathic] product by mistake," Little said. In a trip to the drug store while sick or as a weary parent of a miserably ill child, it's easy to mistakenly pick up a homeopathic product in haste or the fog of infection.
If folks are going to irresponsibly take some random drug without having any idea what's in it, it sounds like funneling them toward something that won't harm them is a good thing. I mean would you really rather have them giving their kids something like tylenol without reading the dosage instructions?
We haven't given aspirin to kids for like half a century.
I know this, because my uncle died from Reye syndrome from aspirin when he was two years old right before the recommendation changed.
I'm guessing a decent number of unexplained child deaths from back then can be attributed to Reye syndrome from aspirin.
I personally think the FDA should be more focused on these kinds of things — contamination and labeling fraud — and less on regulation of efficacy or access. We need more access and competition in the US, not less.