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Forgoing medical care in favor of orthomolecular treatments can lead to adverse health outcomes. [6] Health professionals see orthomolecular medicine as encouraging individuals to dose themselves with large amounts of vitamins and other nutrients without conventional supervision, which they worry might be damaging to health.
Authoritative bodies such as the National Institute of Mental Health [12] and American Academy of Pediatrics [29] have criticized orthomolecular treatments as ineffective and toxic. A 1973 task force of the American Psychiatric Association charged with investigating orthomolecular claims concluded:
The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine is not indexed by MEDLINE, a database of biomedical literature.Journals are selected for MEDLINE by the National Library of Medicine based on scope and coverage, quality of content, quality of editorial work, intended audience, quality of the layout, printing, graphics, and illustrations. [6]
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Ortho-McNeil's parent company, Johnson and Johnson, also paid $75.37 million to resolve civil allegations under the False Claims Act that it caused false claims to be submitted to government health care programs for a variety of psychiatric uses that were not FDA approved.
Orthomol (full name: Orthomol pharmazeutische Vertriebs GmbH) is a family business based in Langenfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. [3] It was founded by Kristian Glagau in 1991 and is now managed by his son Nils together with Michael Schmidt.
In 1963, Ortho introduced the second oral contraceptive available in the United States (Ortho-Novum 10 and Ortho-Novum 2, produced by Syntex). In 1964, Ortho bought rights to and marketed the Gynekoil (Margulies Coil) and Lippes Loop inert plastic IUDs in the United States until the mid-1970s and 1985, respectively.
Molecular medicine is a broad field, where physical, chemical, biological, bioinformatics and medical techniques are used to describe molecular structures and mechanisms, identify fundamental molecular and genetic errors of disease, and to develop molecular interventions to correct them. [1]