Unicorn poo and blessed waters: COVID-19 quackery and FDA warning letters

KA Bramstedt - Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science, 2021 - Springer
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has created a global setting of clinical crisis and
human anxiety. Without available safe and effective vaccines and cures, an unscrupulous …

Disinformation about COVID-19 preventions and treatments: analysis of USFDA warning letters

K Sridharan, G Sivaramakrishnan - Health Communication, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT COVID-19 poses a challenge beyond the virus itself, in that lockdown has been
associated increased use of the internet and social media. Disinformation about prevention …

COVID-19 pandemic: An era of myths and misleading advertisements

T Hussian, M Choudhary… - Journal of Generic …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
COVID-19 pandemic has shattered the global health economy. Advertisers take advantage
of fear and emotions in society due to the pandemic outbreak. Rumors spread rapidly …

Global safety database summary of COVID-19-related drug utilization-safety surveillance: a sponsor's perspective

E Beyzarov, Y Chen, R Julg, K Naim, J Shah… - Drug Safety, 2021 - Springer
Introduction Evidence-based clinical data on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pharmacotherapies are scarce. Objective This study documented and characterized COVID …

Pseudoscience and fraudulent products for COVID-19 management

VP Chavda, SS Sonak, NK Munshi… - … Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
As of now, the COVID-19 pandemic has become uncontrolled and is spreading widely
throughout the world. Additionally, new variants of the mutated viral variants have been …

[HTML][HTML] Debunking cannabidiol as a treatment for COVID-19: Time for the FDA to adopt a focused deterrence model?

CL Shover, K Humphreys - Cureus, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Many cannabidiol (CBD) retailers make unsupported medical claims about their product. In
recent years, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent warning letters to CBD …

Crowdfunding campaigns and COVID-19 misinformation

J Snyder, M Zenone, T Caulfield - American Journal of …, 2021 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To understand whether and how crowdfunding campaigns are a source of
COVID-19–related misinformation. Methods. We searched the GoFundMe crowdfunding …

COVID-19: regulatory landscape of medicinal and medical device products for human use

P Beninger - Clinical therapeutics, 2020 - Elsevier
Against the backdrop of the COVID pandemic, the scientific and medical communities are
working with all deliberate speed with state-of-the-art technologies to develop diagnostic …

[PDF][PDF] Responding to the surge of substandard and falsified health products triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic

NN Borse, J Cha, CG Chase, R Gaur… - Rockville, MD: United …, 2021 - read-me.org
Substandard and falsified medical products such as vaccines and medicines are a serious
and growing global health issue1. Other health products such as diagnostic kits and …

Sensational media reporting is common when describing COVID-19 therapies, detection methods, and vaccines

R Ottwell, M Puckett, T Rogers… - Journal of …, 2021 - search.proquest.com
The public relies on news media for health information and medical misinformation is often
spread through news stories. 1 Medical misinformation can affect health outcomes and …