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Increasingly, we use social media to research our medical conditions, the drugs and vitamins we take, our doctors, specialists and hospitals. At the same time, regulators such as the Food and Drug ...

With sales topping $40 billion each year, dietary supplements are a huge business. The supplement industry, though, does not have any government regulation, so some products can be dangerous. Each ...

Rep. Kay Khan wants to put dietary supplements for weight loss and muscle building behind store counters and make them unavailable for sale to people under the age of 18. Khan and health professionals ...

U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) is pushing the Food and Drug Administration to take stronger action to ensure that dietary supplements available to American consumers are safe and that ...

Many people opt to purchase dietary supplements from online marketplaces like Amazon or Walmart, but before you add one to ...

One of the major arguments about vitamins and dietary supplements is that they’re unregulated, so you really don’t know what exactly you’re consuming. Well, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said ...

The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) permits manufacturers to sell products without providing pre-market evidence of safety or efficacy. One fundamental reason for the passage of ...