Re:Australia pulls some Nurofen products over misleading claims
by masklinn on Monday December 14, 2015 @06:05AM
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The HN title is incorrect because it elides the "product" part of the original. Australia didn't pull nurofen itself, they pulled nurofen-branded products which made unsustained claims ("Back Pain", "Period Pain", "Migraine Pain" and "Tension Headache" which were bog-standard nurofen formulation with different branding and significant markup)
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Re:Australia pulls some Nurofen products over misleading claims
by joosters on Monday December 14, 2015 @06:10AM
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'Nurofen' is a brand. 'Ibuprofen' is the commonly used name here for the active ingredient. Bog-standard Nurofen is still a marked-up, branded product containing a generic drug.
Re:Australia pulls some Nurofen products over misleading claims
by masklinn on Monday December 14, 2015 @06:37AM
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> 'Nurofen' is a brand.
Nurofen is both a brand and a specific product, the old title made it look like the specific product itself or even the whole brand had been pulled, neither of which is correct.
> Bog-standard Nurofen is still a marked-up, branded product containing a generic drug.
True as that might be, it doesn't make misleading claims and hasn't been pulled, only 4 specific sub-products of the brand have been.