Defend your right to treat patients using compounded medications such as glutathione

Defend your right to treat patients using compounded medications such as glutathione

Link: http://integrativemedicineconsortium.org/ Here’s the issue: The FDA is once again overstepping by protecting the interests of Big Pharma rather than patient care by restricting access to compounded medicines. Physicians and patients will lose access to these safe, effective and cost effective medications unless we act using the legal methods demonstrated to defeat prior FDA overreach. […]

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Protect Natural Estriol!

Protect Natural Estriol!

Many millions of women depend on it. Action Alert! In 2008, the FDA – likely acting upon a petition it received from Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of Premarin (an estrogen drug made from pregnant horse mares’ urine) – went after bioidentical hormones, particularly estriol. Thanks to ANH members and the wider natural health community, the […]

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Customized Resveratrol Also to Be Banned

Customized Resveratrol Also to Be Banned

Another update on the FDA’s war on natural medicine. Action Alert! Recently we told you about the Nov. 20-21 meeting of the FDA’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PCAC), in which the committee would recommend whether several natural medicines could continue to be used by pharmacies to make customized natural medicines for patients. The fate of […]

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Fish Oil Import Ban: Update

Fish Oil Import Ban: Update

The International Trade Commission (ITC) refused to hear the case; Amarin appeals. From Nutraingredients: Amarin Pharmaceuticals Inc. has appealed the decision by the US International Trade Commission not to hear its case in which it had sought to prevent the import of some omega-3 dietary supplements. The company also filed a technical writ to try […]

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Are You Getting Enough Vitamin D?

Are You Getting Enough Vitamin D?

Definitely not, if you’re following the government’s recommendations. GrassrootsHealth, an organization dedicated to disseminating information about vitamin D research, has now confirmed a previous finding that the National Academy of Medicine (IOM),  the government’s advisor on health and medical issues, is off by a magnitude of ten in its recommended daily intake of vitamin D. […]

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Individual Mandate Eliminated?

Individual Mandate Eliminated?

Lawmakers may still have a go at changing healthcare—through their tax plan. From The New York Times: Senate Republicans have decided to include the repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that most people have health insurance into the sprawling tax rewrite…. They also… revealed late Tuesday they would set all of their tax cuts […]

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Pharma Companies Sued Over MRI Drug

Pharma Companies Sued Over MRI Drug

Will justice be done? From Business Wire: Chuck and Gena Norris announced today that they have filed a lawsuit against eleven drug companies, including McKesson and Bracco, that they claim are responsible for the gadolinium contrast dye used during the MRIs that nearly cost Gena her life. The lawsuit alleges that Gena was poisoned by […]

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More Natural Medicines on FDA’s Chopping Block

More Natural Medicines on FDA’s Chopping Block

The FDA’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PCAC) is holding another meeting, this time to decide the fate of resveratrol and pregnenolone, among other compounded medicines. Action Alert! For some time now, we’ve been monitoring the FDA’s PCAC as it recommends which substances should be allowed to be compounded. Almost always, PCAC follows the lead of […]

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