A key FDA advisory panel just handed patients and integrative practitioners a rare win. But the agency still has the power to ignore it. Action Alert! Listen to the audio version of this article: THE TOPLINE At a July 23-24 meeting, the Food and Drug Administration’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PCAC) voted to recommend that […]
The FDA has delayed a major food safety rule that could reshape which ingredients make it into foods, supplements, medical foods, and natural health products. The delay gives consumers more time to demand reform that improves safety without restricting access to beneficial ingredients. Action Alert! Listen to the audio version of this article: THE TOPLINE […]
For years, Americans who questioned whether COVID-19 might have emerged from a laboratory were dismissed as conspiracy theorists. Now, newly released diaries from Dr. Anthony Fauci show that the possibility was being taken seriously at the highest levels of government from the pandemic’s earliest days. Listen to the audio version of this article: THE TOPLINE […]
A major doctors’ group is calling for Congress to give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sweeping new power over dietary supplements. If they get their way, the vitamins, minerals, botanicals, probiotics, and specialty formulas millions of Americans rely on could be treated more like drugs than foods. Action Alert! Listen to the audio version […]
For years, Americans who questioned vaccine safety, the childhood schedule, natural immunity, or informed consent were dismissed as anti-science. Now the federal government, under RFK Jr.’s leadership, is acknowledging that these issues belong on the table. Listen to the audio version of this article: THE TOPLINE The renewed National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC) charter, filed […]
From Michelle Perro, MD. Visit her Substack for more. Listen to the audio version of this article: Prior to this part launch, part rant, and of course, weed whacking, I need to give credit to my podcast producer, Anne Temple. We were prepping for the next podcast and she mentioned that in her neck of […]
The EPA is retreating from stronger safeguards against PFAS-contaminated sewage sludge, leaving farmers, families, and the food supply exposed to toxic “forever chemicals.” Action Alert! Listen to the audio version of this article: THE TOPLINE The fertilizer spread on American farms may be carrying toxic “forever chemicals” into our soil, water, crops, livestock, and food. […]
Paraquat is so poisonous that a single sip can kill, yet it is still sprayed on American farmland and allowed near the food supply. Action Alert! Listen to the audio version of this article: THE TOPLINE Paraquat is so toxic that the Environmental Protection Agency says one small sip can be fatal. It cannot be […]
For years, the FDA’s approach to compounded peptides has looked less like careful regulation and more like a campaign to eliminate patient access to products that compete with Big Pharma. There may at last be reason for cautious optimism. Action Alert! Listen to the audio version of this story: THE TOPLINE For too long, patients […]
The federal government just did something rare in supplement regulation: it drew a line that targets a dangerous opioid adulterant without sweeping away a natural botanical used in its natural leaf form. Action Alert! Listen to the audio version of this article: THE TOPLINE Bad actors have been hijacking kratom’s name to sell concentrated, opioid-like […]