acne treatment apps

Five medical apps the FTC will likely remove

By Brian Dolan 10:03 am September 9, 2011

This week the Federal Trade Commission made an unprecedented move to remove two medical apps from the Apple AppStore and Android Market on grounds that they made unsubstantiated efficacy claims. The apps both offered "light therapy" to treat a user's acne. Both developers were ordered to pay back the monies they made by selling the apps to consumers. While app stores have offered a number of apps...

US regulators remove two acne medical apps

By Brian Dolan 10:01 am September 9, 2011

By Brian Dolan and Chris Gullo In a watershed moment, the FTC this week fined two app developers who falsely advertised that their smartphone apps could treat acne. The apps, AcneApp and Acne Pwner, were sold in the iTunes App Store and Android Marketplace, respectively. The settlements ban the developers from stating certain health-related claims without scientific evidence. AcneApp's...