[e-drug] Irrational use - what is needed to control prescribers or promoters?(2)

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E-DRUG: Irrational use - what is needed to control prescribers or promoters?(2)
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Re: E-drug Dec 12: from Dr Haroon Bacha
For example, nutraceuticals.... Tablets Opera MV (locally manufactured-Vitamins and Minerals) (Retail PKRs.350) On the other hand multinational products are available e.g. Optilets M (Retail PKRs. 60). That is six times high cost is charged for a low quality product, being an unnecessary burden on illiterate and poor patient, just filling the pockets of (concerned) greedy prescribers.
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See:
Nurofen's maker misled consumers over painkillers' contents, court rules

A court in Australia has ordered drug giant Reckitt Benckiser to stop selling some of its popular Nurofen painkiller brands after finding tablets marketed for specific complaints such as back pain or migraines contained exactly the same active ingredient.
Price sampling by the ACCC before the start of the court case found the Nurofen Specific Pain products were being sold at almost double that of Nurofen’s standard ibuprofen.

ACCC's chaiman said “Truth in advertising and consumer issues in the health and medical sectors are priority areas for the ACCC, to ensure that consumers are given accurate information when making their purchasing decisions'

see more here
http://tinyurl.com/hrnwskz
and here:
http://tinyurl.com/jmz6al5

Also:
Don’t believe the hype – your complementary medicines are unlikely to deliver-

We recently submitted a complaint about the promotion of Ease-a-Cold products, which claim to be “clinically proven” to shorten your cold. The complaint highlights a number of long-standing problems with the regulation of complementary medicines.

see here:
https://theconversation.com/dont-believe-the-hype-your-complementary-medicines-are-unlikely-to-deliver-52139

or: http://tinyurl.com/jyxa2bq

Dr Ken Harvey
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Monash University
The Alfred Centre
99 Commercial Road
Melbourne VIC 3004
Email: kenneth.harvey@monash.edu
"Ken Harvey" <k.harvey@medreach.com.au>