NIH Director’s Blog Liquid Biopsies Can Guide Cancer Treatment FDA Approves Blood Tests That Can Help Guide Cancer Treatment https://t.co/uceAapeOOW — Carol Duff (@CarolDuff18) October 16, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: Liquid biopsies analyze DNA that tumors have shed into the blood stream. Up till now, a biopsy takes a sample of the tumor and is far more invasive and usually quicker. Immunotherapies and targeted therapies work against tumors that have genetic changes and after analyzing the genetic changes: tumor profiling, genomic profiling, or tumor sequencing a specific therapy can be chosen. These liquid biopsies, from two different companies are used for […]
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US President Donald Trump tore into the Food and Drug Administration over a new set of vaccine guidelines which, if followed, would make a pre-election inoculation unworkable, slamming the rules as a “political hit job.” “New FDA Rules make it more difficult for them to speed up vaccines for approval before Election Day. Just another political hit job!” Trump tweeted on Tuesday night, tagging FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn on the post. New FDA Rules make it more difficult for them to speed up vaccines for approval before Election Day. Just another political hit job! @SteveFDA — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October […]
A volunteer in a clinical trial for an experimental COVID-19 vaccine receives an injection last month at Research Centers of America in Hollywood, Fla. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images A volunteer in a clinical trial for an experimental COVID-19 vaccine receives an injection last month at Research Centers of America in Hollywood, Fla. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration published guidance Tuesday detailing what’s required for the emergency authorization of a coronavirus vaccine after the advice to pharmaceutical companies was delayed by White House review. […]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a public service warning over the “Benadryl Challenge,” a deadly TikTok trend that encourages impressionable netizens to get high and hallucinate on a deadly dose of allergy pills. The federal agency warned in its Thursday release that exceeding the recommended dosage of Benadryl, an over-the-counter (OTC) brand name for diphenhydramine, can trigger heart complications, seizures and/or coma. Abusing Benadryl can also lead to death, as exhibited by a 15-year-old Oklahoma girl who overdosed on the OTC drug and died on August 21. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, outlet KFOR said the teen’s death may […]
President Trump addresses reporters during a Wednesday news conference. Joshua Roberts/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joshua Roberts/Getty Images President Trump addresses reporters during a Wednesday news conference. Joshua Roberts/Getty Images President Trump on Wednesday decried reported health agency efforts to issue stricter guidelines for a vaccine against COVID-19, accusing the Food and Drug Administration of playing politics. Trump was reacting to a Tuesday report in the New York Times that said the agency will soon move to tighten requirements for emergency authorization of any coronavirus vaccine to better ensure its safety. “That has to be approved by the White House. […]
By JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News Dozens of major hospitals across the U.S. are grappling with whether to ignore a federal decision allowing broader emergency use of blood plasma from recovered COVID patients to treat the disease in favor of dedicating their resources to a gold-standard clinical trial that could help settle the science for good. As many as 45 hospitals from coast to coast have expressed interest in collaborating on a randomized, controlled clinical trial sponsored by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said principal investigator Dr. Todd Rice. Officials at some hospitals said they are considering committing only to the clinical […]
By Ana Santos Rutschman, Lisa Vertinsky, and Yaniv Heled On the eve of the Republican National Convention, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn announced that the FDA had issued emergency use authorization for investigational convalescent plasma as a treatment for COVID-19. Plasma is the liquid part of blood. Sometimes, for treatment purposes, it is taken from people who have been infected with but recovered from a disease, because it contains antibodies that fought the disease. Doctors then inject this so-called convalescent plasma into patients who currently have a disease in hopes that the antibodies in the plasma can help […]
Almost as quickly as she was installed as the FDA’s spokeswoman, Emily Miller is now out. The controversial PR maven, a former reporter for right-wing cable network One America News and vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, was removed Friday by FDA commissioner Stephen M. Hahn after less than two weeks on the job, according to the The New York Times. The FDA did not respond to a request for comment, but has removed her name from the Twitter account designated for use by the FDA spokesperson. Miller’s ouster follows a contentious week at the federal agency, after officials inflated the […]
Dr. Stephen M. Hahn, the F.D.A. commissioner, erroneously said on Sunday that convalescent plasma would have saved 35 percent of coronavirus patients this year.Credit…Oliver Contreras for The New York Times “For the first time ever, I feel like official people in communications and people at the F.D.A. grossly misrepresented data about a therapy,” said Dr. Walid Gellad, who leads the Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing at the University of Pittsburgh. It is especially worrisome, he said, given concerns over how Mr. Trump has appeared to politicize the process of approving treatments and vaccines for the coronavirus. Over the next couple of months, […]
Health Editor’s Note: Kratom is not safe for consumption in any form. Read below for important information…..Carol No FDA Approved Uses for Kratom The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use Mitragyna speciosa, commonly known as kratom, a plant which grows naturally in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. FDA is concerned that kratom, which affects the same opioid brain receptors as morphine, appears to have properties that expose users to the risks of addiction, abuse, and dependence. There are no FDA-approved uses for kratom, and the agency has received concerning reports about the safety of kratom. […]
The Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency authorization for convalescent plasma as a ‘promising’ coronavirus treatment in the US, concluding that the known and potential benefits of the therapy “outweigh the risks.” “The FDA has made the independent determination that the treatment is safe and very effective,” US President Donald Trump said at a press conference on Sunday, amid criticism that his administration ‘forced’ the approval of ‘untested’ treatment. The plasma transfusion therapy has been around for decades and involves treating sufferers with a liquid made from the blood of people who have recovered from an illness and have antibodies. Amid the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107765/07/1077650784_0:0:2047:1151_1200x675_80_0_0_6db4317411830966de38137137e193a1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008231080256642-trumps-chief-of-staff-says-president-wants-fda-to-feel-the-heat-to-quicken-vaccine-development/ The US Food and Drug Administration, the government body responsible for the control and regulation of pharmaceutical drugs and medicine, is currently undergoing clinical trials for a potential vaccine for the coronavirus. Donald Trump’s accusation that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is delaying clinical trials for the coronavirus vaccine for political reasons is a way of making the agency “feel the heat” and advance the process, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said on Sunday. While speaking on ABC’s “This Week” with host George Stephanopoulos, Meadows claimed that the president’s comments were […]
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) has accused Donald Trump of making a “dangerous statement” by tweeting that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has hindered the US’ covid-19 response, including the approval of a vaccine. In a Saturday tweet tagging FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, the president accused the “deep state” of delaying approval on clinical trials for a coronavirus vaccine on purpose to affect November’s election. “The deep state, or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics. Obviously, they are hoping to delay the answer […]
Javier Alvarez donating his plasma at Houston Methodist Hospital in July after his grandmother died from the virus.Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times WASHINGTON (New York Times) — Last week, just as the Food and Drug Administration was preparing to issue an emergency authorization for blood plasma as a Covid-19 treatment, a group of top federal health officials including Dr. Francis S. Collins and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci intervened, arguing that emerging data on the treatment was too weak, according to two senior administration officials. NEW from @noahweiland @SharonLNYT @sherifink — FDA was set to do an emergency approval of blood plasma […]
Judicial Watch obtained records that show the FDC paid for “fresh and never frozen” human fetal parts from abortions for use in “humanized mice” creation. God help us. BREAKING: Judicial Watch received 165 pages of records from the FDA showing FDA between 2012 & 2018 entered into 8 contracts worth $96,370 to acquire “fresh & never frozen” tissue from aborted fetuses for use in creating “humanized mice” for research (1/3).https://t.co/eU5mgpZLCr — Judicial Watch 🔎 (@JudicialWatch) June 23, 2020 TRENDING: BREAKING: GENERAL FLYNN CASE DISMISSED! — DC Appeals Court Upholds Justice Department’s Request! “These documents are a horror show,” said Judicial Watch […]
The US federal government is now left with 63 million doses of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine sulfate (HCQ) in its Strategic National Stockpile after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday revoked permission for the drug to be used for COVID-19 treatment. In addition to HCQ, the FDA also revoked its authorization of the use of chloroquine phosphate (CQ), which can also treat and prevent malaria, for COVID-19 treatment. “[The] FDA has determined that CQ and HCQ are unlikely to be effective in treating COVID-19 for the authorized uses in the EUA [Emergency Use Authorization]. Additionally, in light of […]
FDA Permits Marketing of First Game-Based Digital Therapeutic to Improve Attention Function in Children with ADHD FDA for Immediate Release Today, (yesterday) the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) permitted marketing of the first game-based digital therapeutic device to improve attention function in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The prescription-only game-based device, called EndeavorRx, is indicated for pediatric patients ages 8 to12 years old with primarily inattentive or combined-type ADHD who have demonstrated an attention issue. EndeavorRx is indicated to improve attention function as measured by computer-based testing and is the first digital therapeutic intended to improve symptoms associated […]
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (https://aapsonline.org) filed a lawsuit against Department of Health and Human Services and the FDA for “irrational interference” by the FDA with timely access to hydroxychloroquine. Never in history have we seen such a determined effort by the scientific community and pharmaceutical industry to downplay and lie about the use of a successful drug to treat a deadly disease. Hydroxychloroquine is the first choice in a study of 6,000 doctors treating the coronavirus.In the field and in independent testing hydroxychloroquine displayed amazing results in treating the COVID-19 virus. But there was great pushback against hydroxychloroquine […]
President Donald Trump said on Monday that he has been taking the unproven anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a preventative treatment for the coronavirus. Recent studies have shown that the drug has little to no effectiveness in treating the coronavirus, and the FDA has issued a warning regarding its potentially deadly side-effects. Speaking to reporters on Monday afternoon, the president took aim at ousted vaccine chief Dr. Rick Bright, who recently came forward with a whistleblower complaint about the Trump administration’s push of the controversial drug. “A lot of doctors take it. I take it,” the president said at the White House […]
www.complianceteaminc.com Health Editor’s Note: Especially now, during this pandemic, there is no time for false treatments that eat up dollars and time and give no prevention or cure of COVID-19. Xephyr LLC (N-Ergetics) claim that colloidal silver products will cure, prevent, alter, treat COVID-19 as well as cholera, diabetes, AIDS, and cancer is not medically or scientifically proven to do what it claims. Enough with the snake oil…..Carol Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: Federal judge enters temporary injunction against Xephyr LLC doing business as N-Ergetics, preventing sale of Colloidal Silver Products for COVID-19 FDA News Release A federal court has entered a temporary […]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ordered a Seattle-based Covid-19 testing project funded by Bill Gates to stop screening for the virus, putting the program on ice as it provided hundreds of at-home test kits each day. The billionaire Microsoft icon announced the initiative in a blog post this week – dubbed the Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network, or SCAN – which he said was already distributing some 300 test kits on a daily basis. As of Wednesday, however, all links to the project’s website redirect to a notice stating its operations are “currently paused” due to a conflict with […]
«You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. If you say, “The Lord is my refuge”, and you make the Most High your dwelling, no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent».(Holy Bible – Psalm 90) by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy UPDATE ON MAY, 1 US President Donald Trump revealed Friday that Gilead Sciences’ antiviral drug remdesivir has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of COVID-19. According to Reuters, Gilead CEO Daniel O’Day called the FDA’s emergency authorization an “important first step” and […]
«You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. If you say, “The Lord is my refuge”, and you make the Most High your dwelling, no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent».(Holy Bible – Psalm 90) by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy UPDATE ON MAY, 1 US President Donald Trump revealed Friday that Gilead Sciences’ antiviral drug remdesivir has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of COVID-19. According to Reuters, Gilead CEO Daniel O’Day called the FDA’s emergency authorization an “important first step” and […]
«You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. If you say, “The Lord is my refuge”, and you make the Most High your dwelling, no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent».(Holy Bible – Psalm 90) by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy UPDATE ON MAY, 1 US President Donald Trump revealed Friday that Gilead Sciences’ antiviral drug remdesivir has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of COVID-19. According to Reuters, Gilead CEO Daniel O’Day called the FDA’s emergency authorization an “important first step” and […]