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Pharmacies must ‘immediately’ remove weight-loss ads, regulators warn

 
• By Kate Bowie

The pharmacy, medicine and advertising regulators have joined forces to warn pharmacies not to advertise weight loss drugs via social media, adding that pharmacies can still break the rules without naming a POM.

“No-one operating in this industry can say they have not been warned”
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Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She began covering the primary care beat at the end of 2022, when she carried out several health investigations focused on staffing issues, NHS funding and health inequalities.

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