Partnership for Safe Medicines filed a citizen petition (CP) with the FDA asking them to refrain from taking action to allow for compounding of drug products using seven peptide bulk drug substances (BPC-157, KPV, TB-500, MOTS-c, emideltide, semax, and epitalon). Learn why here.
Doctors reported that a man who injected the unregulated peptide he purchased at a gym developed a melanoma lesion after only taking the drug for five weeks.
Alex took the advice of older gym veterans about how he could bulk up fast, setting off more than a decade of steroid and, eventually, unregulated peptide use.
Well-meaning advocates continue to propose importing medicine from foreign countries to lower drug prices for Americans. Past efforts didn’t pay off financially and raised public health risks. Here’s the state of this issue today.
According to court documents, from at least July 2023 to April 2024, the men allegedly obtained the counterfeit products, which included the packaging, pen labels, and needles, from unauthorized sources in China.
The Texas-based 503A compounding facility was warned for continuing to manufacture large amounts of weight loss drugs that are “essentially copies” of brand-name products, which is no longer permitted now that shortages have resolved.
Three senior employees of the pill press company have been arrested as the U.S. House unanimously passes the Stop Pills That Kill Act, which attempts to disrupt the pill press trade.
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