Healthy Skepticism Library item: 14078
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Publication type: Journal Article
[No authors listed].
Anti-AIDS vitamin advertising banned.
Nature 2008 Jun 19; 453:(7198):969
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080618/full/453969c.html
Abstract:
A South African judge has ruled that clinical trials purporting to test the effectiveness of vitamins against AIDS were illegal, and that vitamins should not be advertised as therapies for AIDS…
Keywords:
MeSH Terms:
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/drug therapy*
Anti-HIV Agents*/pharmacology
Clinical Trials as Topic/legislation & jurisprudence
Drug Labeling/ethics*
Drug Labeling/standards
Humans
Quackery/legislation & jurisprudence*
Quackery/prevention & control
South Africa
Vitamins*/pharmacology
Substances:
Anti-HIV Agents
Vitamins
