[e-drug] Appetite stimulants (3)

["Leo Offerhaus" <offerhausl@euronet.nl>]

E-DRUG: Appetite stimulants (3)
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Dear colleagues, dear E-druggers,

If any drug carried such an indication it would be a remnant of past 
beliefs in drug registration. When I worked in drug registration in 
Holland we had the same problems with anabolic steroids, especially 
with identical claims for nandrolone and stanazolol. I asked two 
academic oncologists to assess the clinical data, and they rejected 
the evidence. The claim was only suspended many years later, and now 
the only comment in the reimbursement formulary states that such 
drugs "are used" without mentioning specific indications. They have 
been deleted from the BNF. Merck dropped the indication many years 
ago for cyproheptadine. It is remarkable that such claims persist so 
many years after our moderator Dr.Bannenberg won the case against 
Organon in Thailand, where these drugs were marketed as appetite 
stimulants for children! Therefore, forget about such drugs and treat 
AIDS, cancer and hunger instead.

Leo Offerhaus, Bussum, The Netherlands.
offerhausl@euronet.nl