{"id":5543,"date":"2017-01-10T10:10:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T15:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5543"},"modified":"2017-01-10T10:10:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T15:10:58","slug":"memory-boosting-supplement-prevagen-has-no-scientific-backing-ftc-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5543","title":{"rendered":"Memory-boosting supplement Prevagen has no scientific backing, FTC says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ike Swetlitz for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">T<\/span>he Federal Trade Commission and the New York state attorney general Monday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/news-events\/press-releases\/2017\/01\/ftc-new-york-state-charge-marketers-prevagen-making-deceptive\" target=\"_blank\">filed<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">1<\/sup> a complaint against a supplement company that\u00a0claims its pills can help with age-associated memory loss. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/01\/09\/prevagen-supplement-ftc-lawsuit\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz--hstQ33nC45PT21eLEi9o7LoDhwMx-wek1_EWmJFa8K1EhE2Ur4HPeRRpqW1zdHxdy0xQbIYRSXtbBtEDTQUMeSqWN_g&amp;_hsmi=40364684\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"stat-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ike Swetlitz for STAT) The Federal Trade Commission and the New York state attorney general Monday\u00a0filed1 a complaint against<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5544,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions\/5544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}