Medicines bible, MIMS, is providing potentially erroneous product information about complementary medicines, a leading public health expert claims.
Adjunct Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University’s school of public health, Dr Ken Harvey told Pharmacy eNews he was concerned that MIMS had published information about a herbal product that was provided by the manufacturer and had not been independently validated.
“When I recently complained [to the TGA] about the promotion of Ethical Nutrients herbal product, Urinary Tract Support, on a number of non-sponsor websites, I was told that some of this information had been sourced from MIMS.
“MIMS then confirmed that their product information on listed complementary medicines was provided by the company concerned and received no independent validation,” he says....
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