We’ve joined with two natural health powerhouses to argue that this action is illegal. Urgent Action Alert! We have been telling you about the FDA’s latest sneak attempt to ban another B vitamin—natural folate. Folate is the naturally occurring form of the water-soluble vitamin B9. It is found in foods such as black-eyed peas, chickpeas […]
But she hasn’t yet succeeded. The recent annual conference of the School Nutrition Association (SNA), which, along with various labor unions, represents our country’s 55,000 school food workers, was sponsored by Domino’s Pizza, PepsiCo, Tyson, General Mills, and AdvancePierre Foods, a pre-packaged sandwich provider, the largest in the nation. The exhibition hall was filled with […]
As his popularity with Americans grows—and with it a new openness to integrative medicine—mainstream medicine is alarmed. Last year, when he was a second-year medical student, Benjamin Mazer took it upon himself to ask both the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) and the American Medical Association (AMA) to address what he […]
It’s higher in antioxidants and lower in pesticide residues. A comprehensive new study published this week in the prestigious British Journal of Nutrition shows very clearly that how we grow our food has a huge impact. “If you buy organic fruits and vegetables, you can be sure you have, on average, a higher amount of […]
You guessed it. Many tests essential to patients’ health would no longer be available. And the future of medicine seems to lie more and more in innovative, sophisticated, and custom testing—just what the FDA won’t like. Action Alert! Laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) are diagnostic tests developed and performed by local labs. They are widely used—thousands of […]
It looks to us that they’re trying to interfere with the practice of medicine. Action Alerts! The FDA has released a number of documents—draft guidances and proposed rules—that are supposed to “provide clarity” on the whole issue of compounding. These “clarifications” will severely diminish your access to many compounded medications. The new guidances may be, […]
This also means that additional patients will receive the treatment while it is being studied. It will be a Phase III study, in which the treatment is given to large groups of people to confirm its effectiveness. The patients will be split into two random groups. One group will receive just radiation therapy, and the […]
They’re trying to set a dangerous new precedent, but you can stop it. Urgent Action Alert! The Federal Trade Commission has charged i-Health (the consumer supplement division of DSM, a Dutch-based multinational life sciences company) and Martek Biosciences Company with false advertising. The companies, which recently merged as DSM Nutritional Products, had been claiming that their Omega-3 […]
And instead use pro-biotics for the skin? Meanwhile, must we try to kill every germ on us, good or bad, with triclosan? Action Alert! The New York Times Magazine recently ran a story about a fascinating new product, a spray called AO+ Refreshing Cosmetic Mist, from a small biotech company AOBiome. The spray contains billions […]
“I certify that this compounded variation produces ‘a significant difference from the marketed drug version.’ ”
If Congress’s initial, knee-jerk reaction to the 2012 New England Compounding Center (NECC) meningitis tragedy had become law, you would have had to add this federally mandated disclaimer to every prescription you wrote for a compounded drug. It seems Congress, influenced by pharmaceutical industry lobbying dollars, wanted to reward the FDA’s failure to shut down grossly negligent compounding manufacturers—but did so by granting the agency vast new powers.