CATEGORY: FDA – Regulatory
Non FDA approved meds are prescribed by thousands of doctors every day
What happens when a doctor can’t find an FDA approved drug to treat a condition they are faced with? If you ever doubted your doctor because she wrote a script that you later “Googled” and found was not FDA approved,[...]
The 17 Year Delay
Why does the FDA take so long to approve new medications. You will learn: What holds up new treatments for diseases and conditions How long the FDA sits on a known safe medical medication before it is released to the[...]
Thymosin-Alpha 1 – A Natural Killer of Viruses and Cancer Cells
Thymosin Alpha 1 is a piece of a Protein that is Naturally Produced in the Human Body That Improves Your Immune Response To Infection And Cancer. Links to research articles Thymosin-alpha-1-PubMed.pdf Thymosin-Beta-4-heart-repair-PTBI.pdf FDA targets thymosin in compounding concern If you[...]
The Death of Title IX, and the End of Women’s Equality
The decision to make women compete against biologic men is an uneducated, unscientific decision. Title IX is a Federal Civil Rights Law passed as part of the Education Amendment of 1972. It is now in jeopardy of being reversed in[...]
Human Growth Hormones, Secretagogues, and Why They Matter
Human Growth Hormone - If It Is A Necessary Human Hormone, Why Is It So Actively Controlled? For decades the US government has punished doctors for prescribing growth hormone for adults. Doctors who practice anti-aging medicine are targeted by the[...]
Fast Tracking Drugs at the FDA
How do new drugs obtain FDA approval? This week we are examining the process the FDA calls Fast Tracking of drugs. Fast track is a process designed to facilitate the development and expedite the review of drugs to treat serious[...]
Democrats are having the wrong Healthcare Debate
Current issues with Healthcare in America. This week’s conversation is based on an article which appeared in the New York Times on August 2 of 2019. The article was an essay by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a physician and the provost[...]
Anti-Aging Medicine Addresses Senescence and Reverses Osteoporosis
Discussion of individual drugs researched and approved by the FDA for the purpose of treating the specific diseases of aging. This week’s conversation was stimulated by an article in January’s Endocrine News written by Sundeep Khosla, MD. The author of[...]
What can, or should we do to control drug prices?
Always ask your pharmacist how much your medicine will cost if you pay cash. Drug prices seem to be like the weather. Everyone complains about them but no one does anything about them. This a very complicated multilayered problem for[...]
Why are so many of us Overpaying for our Prescription Medicines?
Why would paying cash for a prescription cost less than paying the insurance co-pay? Please notice that we are not talking about why drugs are so expensive, that may be a part of our discussion today, but it is not[...]