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Sleeping on your back isn’t a medical treatment. It’s a snoring reduction. You can buy snore guards, nose strips, special pillows etc to prevent snoring and
by adrr 2y ago
Sleeping on your back isn’t a medical treatment. It’s a snoring reduction. You can buy snore guards, nose strips, special pillows etc to prevent snoring and none of those require FDA approval because snoring isn’t a medical condition.
- eli 2y agoSo long as you're very careful what you say in the ad and within the app, sure.
- tptacek 2y agoIs it marketed as "intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, in man or other animals"? That's one of three things that gets you categorized under the FDA regulation. There's even a term for it: "SaMD". It seems less likely to me that this is Apple being ruthless or pigheaded and more than you really do have to be careful how you market your iPhone apps. I take your point; the FDA doesn't recognize "snoring" as a medical condition (but OSA is!)
- kemayo 2y agoYeah, but the question is really about how the app was presenting it. If it was making anything that sounded like a health claim...