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randycupertinotoday at 2:20 AM0 repliesview on HN

> The US is the only country, aside from New Zealand, that allows direct-to-consumer marketing of prescription only medicines.

What interesting here is that Hims & Hers are able to skirt the pharmaceutical marketing regulations. They are able to blanket the world in their ads whereas pharma companies have to abide by strict safety information requirements in their commercials. Him/Hers give literally zero safety and side effect info.

The other weird thing is that the companies like Hims/Hers are basically dial a script. You call them and get whatever you want. They probably deny no one and don't turn anyone away. Unethical and lacks physician oversight.