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Drugs & FDA
Two Factories Make the Starter IV Nutrition America's Preemies Live On. Both Are Closing, and the Backup Plan Has Killed Babies Before.
The predominant source of starter IV nutrition for premature newborns is two outsourcing facilities, and both are permanently closing. The FDA's fix: let hospital pharmacies mix it themselves for 180 days, sending the most unforgiving product in medicine back into the loosely regulated compounding t
InvestigationsA Pharma-Funded Nonprofit Is Lobbying the FDA to Kill Seven Peptides It Can't Sell You
The Partnership for Safe Medicines has deep ties to the drug lobby. Now it's urging the FDA to permanently block BPC-157, MOTS-c and five other off-patent peptides that compounding pharmacies sell cheap.