Is a polished website enough to trust?

A clear website can help you read an offer. To check who stands behind it, ask for names and look at the public records.

The mix-up

Can an official-looking seal settle whether care is legitimate?

In sermorelin’s case

A seal or logo may look official and still be fake, warns the Federal Trade Commission. This US agency protects consumers.

Start with the person’s name and the pharmacy’s name. Then check the records behind them.

State medical boards make licence status and any board action against a doctor public.

For the state-board links, try the Federation of State Medical Boards. This organisation consists of state boards.

Find the board for the state where your visit will happen. Search the doctor’s full name and read the record.

FDA, the US agency that reviews medicines, links readers to state pharmacy licence searches.

Ask who will make and send the medicine. Use that name in the state search rather than the service’s brand name.

A licence record shows that a pharmacy has permission to operate. It does not prove that the pharmacy supplies medicines correctly.

Ask who makes your medicine and how the pharmacy checks its quality.

A record with no board action gives no measure of a doctor’s skill.

If the name or licence is unclear, ask the board what the record means before relying on it.

Follow the record, at your pace.

Evidence note

Depending on the state, different kinds of doctors may answer to different boards.

Evidence note

FDA links to the same state pharmacy licence search described above. You can use it to check the pharmacy by name.