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Health tourists, people who go overseas to enjoy the medicines of other countries, may find themselves permanently damaging their health with poorly regulated herbal supplements. This is very hard to detect in bodies and is potentially being missed in deaths from Australians who go overseas. Several cases of people taking certain dietary supplements and herbal medicines have found their liver to be irreversibly damaged. Why is this going on, and why are regulations failing?

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