Legal Experts Contradict Califf, Say FDA Can Regulate Misleading Telehealth Ads

Legal experts say FDA has the authority to regulate online clinics advertising drugs without affiliations to drug companies even though FDA Commissioner Robert Califf argues the agency doesn't have the jurisdiction to do so. FDA and numerous telehealth companies say the online clinics fall outside the scope of FDA's advertising regulations because they aren’t drug manufacturers, distributors or packers. FDA signaled to Inside Health Policy it is deferring to the Federal Trade Commission, yet an FTC official said the...