Copyright 2000 The Seattle Times Company
The
Seattle Times
July 13, 2000, Thursday Final Edition
SECTION: BUSINESS; Pg. C3; BUSINESS BRIEFS
LENGTH: 165 words
HEADLINE:
Online pharmacies to change practices over complaints
BYLINE: Seattle Times news services
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
WASHINGTON - In a crackdown on Web sites offering
Viagra and other drugs targeting sexual dysfunction, several online pharmacies
agreed to change current business practices to settle Federal Trade Commission
(FTC) complaints that they made untrue claims about their facilities and charged
customers unfairly, the FTC said yesterday.
The agency made similar
complaints against 10 defendants: Sandra Rennert and Philip Rennert of Las
Vegas, International Outsourcing, Focus Medical, Trimline, Affordable Accents,
Worldwide RX, WorldWide Medicine, PSRenn and Doctors A.S.A.P.
The FTC said
the Web sites claimed they had "full-service clinics" with a "full-time staff"
and that their doctors "network with an organization of physicians throughout
the United States and internationally," when in reality, the organization of
physicians consisted of one doctor in a distant state, none of the sites had
onsite pharmacies and the prescriptions were filled at a local drugstore.
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