Dietary supplement adverse events
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA Associate Commissioner for Health Affairs Stuart Nightingale, MD, urges physicians to obtain information on dietary supplement consumption when obtaining patient medical histories in a letter to the editor appearing in the July 28 Journal of the American Medical Association. "We have received reports of harmful effects that are the sequelae of taking dietary supplements . . . and believe that reporting of such adverse events could be instrumental in mitigating similar situations in the future," Nightingale said.