NEJM editorial explains why dangerous dietary supplements may stay on store shelves.

The New York Times (5/1, O'Connor) “Well” blog reports, “Flaws in the way that dietary supplements are monitored and reported are causing potentially life-threatening delays in how long dangerous products linger on store shelves, said Dr. Pieter Cohen, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.” In an editorial (5/1) published April 3 in the New England Journal of Medicine, “Dr. Cohen said that one of the more significant problems in such instances is that many cases of harm are reported to doctors and poison control centers but are either delayed in reaching the” Food and Drug Administration or don’t even reach the FDA.