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...without being subject to the FDA review process? And can these supplements be thought of as cures for disease? These are the questions raging around the $6 billion-a-year dietary supplement industry. And supplement manufacturers got a mixed answer Wednesday, when the FDA continued its withdrawal from the fray and ruled that manufacturers can legally claim to treat a variety of symptoms that are considered part of "common passages of life," like menopause and adolescence, but cannot claim to cure actual diseases. Maintenance claims can stand without FDA review, but claims implying curative powers over disease cannot...