Tighter controls needed over websites selling ROMs to public

摘要

TIGHTER controls are needed over the online advertising of prescription drugs, researchers have concluded, after finding poor safety and side effects information on a number of websites selling statins to the public. David Brown and Bethan Williams, from the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Portsmouth, assessed the quality of patient information on sites advertising and selling statins (Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety online, 2 February 2012).