Flashback Friday: Fake diseases

AJP Staff 26/09/2025

With the world at war questions are being raised about radio advertising for medications to treat “nebulous complaints” the September 1945 edition of the Australasian Pharmacy Journal reports A writer in Smith’s Weekly draws attention to an advertising abuse. “Surely”, he says, “some form of intelligent restraint should be imposed upon that portion of radio

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