Paul Bleicher
@pbleic
MD/PhD, Academia => Biotech => Pharma/HealthIT => PE/VC. Immunology, medicine,dermatology, clinical trials, EDC, RWE, AI
An explanatory infographic on amino acids, proteins, and peptides and the 7 compounds before the committee yesterday and today. Consideration is whether these should be on the "allowed" list for manufacture by compounding pharmacies for individual prescriptions.
Regarding whether this will at least improve safety and controls in manufacturing (as in the chatGPT comment, above), this from the March NY times article above:
These 7 peptides - 4 from yesterday’s hearing and 3 from today’s were removed from the list in 2023 as noted in this NY Times article. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/h...
Note that in the past, the members of the advisory panels were mostly, if not all, distinguished physicians, pharmacists, and scientists who were experts in the field. If you are curious as to whether there is ANY rationale for approving these peptides, this answer from chatGPT is helpful.
A frequent target of GOP leaders as a bastion of progressivism, Martha’s Vineyard is awash in flags and flag bunting in preparation for the old school 4th of July parade. Like every year before it. Patriotism is not owned by one party or political stance.
The S. Korea thyroid cancer experience mentioned in the article is a case in point. A huge excess of thyroid cancer diagnosis with lots of morbidity from surgery etc and no change at all in mortality.
Really? “Personalized” Population Health? Isn’t this the definition of an oxymoron?
For goodness sake, doesn’t anyone remember the role of the army bases in the flu epidemic of 1918-1919? Has political ideology completely replaced common sense?
For goodness sake, doesn’t anyone remember the role of the army bases in the flu epidemic of 1918-1919? Has political ideology completely replaced common sense?
It’s about safety. It’s about increasing everyone’s costs without proof of efficacy. It’s about drug interactions. It’s about false hope. It’s wrong.
Read Paul Starr’s The Social Transformation of American Medicine to understand how we got here.
Oh look. NPR took the same stats I did and said the odds are zero. You should definitely go after them with your hair splitting argument that it isn’t “zero.” BTW - the odds are NEVER zero until after the date has passed.
You can start worrying about other things now. The asteroid probability of collision with Earth is now essentially zero. It does have about a 1% chance of colliding with the moon though.
Oh yes. You are so right. Not zero. My bad. 0.003878%. Almost zero. Very helpful distinction.
#1 is wrong. The "good breakfast" thing is from a 1944 marketing campaign for Grape Nuts (which is made from chopped stale bread!).