Case 13.1: Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.Retail Trade in Unregulated Dietary Supplements
More than 40 percent of patients do not tell their doctors about their use of complementary or alternative medicine, including dietary supplements.1 In fact, some physicians hesitate to recommend supplements to their patients, even if they have evidence of effectiveness.2 Dr. Robin Zon, a medical oncologist in South Bend, Indiana, says:
As physicians, we are concerned with how supplements will change the way drugs are metabolized and may cause more harm than good … Further, we are aware that some supplements through clinical research trials can actually cause cancer they are meant to prevent. One example is through the SELECT ...
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