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Predator Nutrition - 607136 - 10/23/2020
Unapproved and Misbranded Products Related to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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Leigh Turner
"You sell products that are intended to mitigate, prevent, treat, diagnose, or cure COVID-19 in people. We request that you take immediate action to cease the sale of such unapproved and unauthorized products."
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Some U.S. doctors flee to New Zealand where the coronavirus outbreak is under control and science is respected
A move to New Zealand presents a welcome break for doctors and nurses from anti-science sentiment in the U.S.
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Leigh Turner
“I couldn’t help them the way I wanted to, given the fear that so many of them have about going bankrupt, and all the time we have to spend babysitting insurance companies." cnbc.com/2020/10/12/cor… by @chrissyfarr
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Day after seeing Trump at Bedminster fundraiser, guests 'flabbergasted' to learn he was stricken
Trump had already been exposed, sources said, but guests said he looked fine.
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Leigh Turner
"The roughly 100 campaign supporters who paid up to $250,000 to attend had no idea that the president had recently been exposed to the novel coronavirus and would soon test positive."
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Swedes indict surgeon for stem-cell windpipe transplants
STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish prosecutor on Tuesday indicted on charges of aggravated assault a surgeon believed to have made headlines in 2011 for carrying out the world’s the first stem-cell...
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Leigh Turner
“I have made the assessment that the three operations are therefore to be considered as aggravated assault. It is the former surgeon at Karolinska University Hospital who alone should bear the criminal responsibility.”
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C.D.C. Didn’t Write Testing Guidance Published on Its Website, Officials Say
A controversial guideline saying people without Covid-19 symptoms didn’t need to get tested for the virus came from H.H.S. officials and skipped the C.D.C.’s scientific review process.
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Leigh Turner
"The director has been described by C.D.C. employees & outsiders as a weak & ineffective leader who is unable to protect the agency from the administration’s meddling in its science or from the public’s increasing mistrust in the agency." nytimes.com/2020/09/17/hea… By @apoorva_nyc
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Top HHS spokesman apologizes to staff for accusing government scientists of sedition
Department of Health and Human Services spokesman Michael Caputo on Tuesday apologized to staffers for a rant in which he accused career government scientists of "sedition" and working to undermine President Donald Trump, multiple sources familiar...
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Leigh Turner
To be fair, he does give members of the CDC's Deep State resistance unit credit for changing out of their sweatpants before going to their sleeper cell meetings at the coffee shop.
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College Quarantine Breakdowns Leave Some at Risk
Colleges are trying to isolate students who have the coronavirus or have been exposed to it, but they are running into a host of problems.
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Leigh Turner
"At many campuses, students with confirmed or possible infections have flooded social media platforms to describe filthy rooms, meager food rations, lack of furniture, chaotic procedures and minimal monitoring from their universities." nytimes.com/2020/09/09/bus… By @natashanyt
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"And at many campuses, students with confirmed or possible infections have flooded social media platforms to describe filthy rooms, meager food rations, lack of furniture, chaotic procedures and minimal monitoring from their universities."
Universities with world-class medical schools. Experts in public health. Top scholars in infectious disease, many of them working on Covid...
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Leigh Turner
"How will quarantined students be fed? Is anyone checking regularly on their health? How will sick students manage the stairs in their quarantine facilities? Who is checking to make sure they are not infecting anyone else?" loathingbioethics.blogspot.com/2020/09/and-at… By @FearLoathingBTX
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Multiorgan failure with fatal outcome after stem cell tourism
Background: unproven stem cell treatments may involve serious health, personal and financial considerations. Due to worldwide spread, illegal stem cell therapies have become a major public health problem. We have already witnessed numerous reports...
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Leigh Turner
"Here we present a case report of a 48-years old patient with serious side effects including disseminated skin ulcers, hepatitis and cardiomyopathy with eventual fatal outcome following unproven stem cell treatment."
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Higher education in the UK is morally bankrupt. I’m taking my research millions and I’m off | Ulf Schmidt
After 25 years I feel Britain has broken my trust. I’m one of many academics who now see their future in Europe
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Leigh Turner
"The Brexit decision fundamentally changed our outlook on Britain as an open, welcoming society. It changed our sense of belonging. Trust, that invisible bond that links us to other people, had been broken." theguardian.com/education/2020… By Ulf Schmidt HT @HenningSchroed1
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Pharma Companies Plan Joint Pledge on Vaccine Safety
The statement is meant to reassure the public that the companies will not seek a premature approval of vaccines under pressure from the Trump administration.
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Leigh Turner
Senior regulators at the FDA "have been discussing making their own joint public statement about the need to rely on proven science, according to two senior administration officials, a move that would breach their usual reticence as civil servants."
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Elon Musk's Neuralink unveils prototype of brain implants
At a live demonstration, Musk said the company had worked to “dramatically simplify” the device since presenting an earlier version last summer.
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Leigh Turner
“This is obviously sounding increasingly like a Black Mirror episode.” statnews.com/2020/08/28/elo… By @RebeccaDRobbins @erbrod
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Living Senior, LLC - 609864 - 08/19/2020
Unapproved and Misbranded Products Related to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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Leigh Turner
"The FDA has observed that your website...offers CBD products for sale in the United States and that these products are intended to mitigate, prevent, treat, diagnose, or cure COVID-19 in people."
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US FDA grants emergency use of plasma therapy following Trump's criticism
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will permit emergency use of convalescent plasma as a treatment for COVID-19, a decision that came after President Donald Trump repeatedly accused regulators of slow-walking the action to harm him politically.
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Leigh Turner
"Experts condemned Hahn's and Azar's claims as manipulating science." spglobal.com/marketintellig… By @DonnaYoungDC
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Evidence lags behind excitement over blood plasma as a coronavirus treatment
Researchers call for more rigorous clinical trials as rumours swirl that US regulators might authorize the potential therapy.
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Leigh Turner
“There is good science behind convalescent plasma and a good reason for thinking that it may turn out to be an effective treatment. But the bottom line is that we don’t have enough data to know.” nature.com/articles/d4158… By @heidiledford
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New U.S. ethics board rejects most human fetal tissue research proposals
HHS Secretary Azar asked not to fund 13 of 14 applications
Scientists Caution Against The Right-Wing Theory That The Coronavirus Could Disappear Soon Because Of T Cells
Right-wing commentators and Trump’s new science adviser, Scott Atlas, say new studies signal good news for ending the pandemic. Scientists say that’s a dangerous leap.
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Leigh Turner
"A senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, he has steadily promoted unscientific views about the virus on Fox News and elsewhere, and has said there is 'zero excuse to not have the schools open in person.'” buzzfeednews.com/article/stepha… by @stephaniemlee
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Coronavirus Thursday update: UMN announces new stem cell treatment
Doctors at the University of Minnesota are the first in the U.S. to treat a critical COVID-19 patient suffering from lung failure using stem cells. The new treatment using mesenchymal stem cells ha…
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Leigh Turner
The clinical study has been cleared to proceed by the FDA. That is not the same as MSCs being FDA-approved as a treatment for COVID-19.
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FDA warns businesses to stop claiming to prevent, treat and diagnose COVID-19
The FDA warns that companies are preying on the fears people have about COVID-19 and producing products that they say help prevent, treat, diagnose and cure COVID. The FDA says the claims are false and not scientifically proven.
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Leigh Turner
"The FDA warns that companies are preying on the fears people have about COVID-19 and producing products that they say help prevent, treat, diagnose and cure COVID." wtkr.com/news/fda-warns… By @MargaretAnnKav
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Attorney General Peterson Files Lawsuit Against Stem Cell Therapy Clinic in Omaha
Attorney General Doug Peterson filed a Complaint today in the District Court of Douglas County against Omaha Stem Cells, LLC, Regenerative Medicine and Anti-Aging Institutes of Omaha, LLC, Stem Cell Centers, LLC and Travis and Emily Autor...
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Leigh Turner
"According to the Attorney General’s lawsuit, the Defendants were advertising and administering unapproved exosome products to consumers."
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