Doing so would have been part of the regulatory process to make it illegal to sell products containing ineffective drugs.

Is there any way to protect the public from unsafe or ineffective drugs without creating an approval process that drags on forever?

But some critics have said the program can allow ineffective or risky drugs on the market.

Parents' desires to maximize their children's size often lead to use of ineffective and potentially toxic drugs.

On the other hand, Japan's domestic drug approval process has been criticized for being too lax, allowing ineffective or dangerous drugs onto the market.

New scientific developments in treatment, although not cures, should transform into hope the despair born of fighting the virus with ineffective drugs.

The agency's critics fear that an alarming precedent is being set and say it could unleash a flood of ineffective drugs on consumers.

What would protect the public from dangerous or ineffective drugs?

Yet the experience is the same: an ineffective drug exposing pregnant women to needless risk and sometimes even death.

Yet these campaigns will be of limited value if consumers are sold ineffective drugs in the wrong doses.