Beijing bans 10 types of medications

Radical concept: banning things that don't work as claimed.

"China's capital banned ten types of drugs for exaggerated effectiveness, a newspaper reported Friday, amid rising concerns of fake and tainted products in China's food and drug supply chains.

While the drugs were genuine, the results they claimed to produce in fighting high blood pressure, diabetes, and other ailments couldn't be supported in clinical testing, the Beijing News reported.

Stores in the city have been told to stop selling them and media outlets that carried their advertising were told to print retractions, the paper said. The orders were the first application of a new law on drug advertising, it said."

If the Communist Chinese are doing it, perhaps this will shame us Democratic Westerners into doing the same.

Nah...