Regulating lap band
Concerned that aggressive advertising for Lap-Band surgery may be misleading patients, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday launched a new effort to further regulate the ads and surgeons who perform the weight-loss procedure. Christina Villacorte in the Daily News,
The federal Food and Drug Administration last week ordered marketing firm 1-800-GET-THIN and eight Southern California surgical centers to pull ads that failed to disclose all the risks, or disclosed them in such small type as to be unreadable.
The supervisors asked county attorneys to look into what legal options they had to ensure truthfulness in the ads.
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