Williams Sr. The legal matters of Bob and Maureen McDonnell are ongoing. On September 4, , the former governor was found guilty of 11 corruption-related charges — including conspiracy, bribery, and extortion — and his wife was convicted on nine counts.
Williams, an entrepreneur and businessman, dabbled in a number of different ventures in the s including car sales and optometry startups. Star Scientific introduced smokeless tobacco products in the s, and Williams eventually patented a tobacco-curing process using microwave radiation, which greatly reduced the amount of tobacco-specific nitrosamines, a group of potent carcinogens, in the dried plant material. Star Scientific announced in December that it would focus on dietary supplements, officially severing ties with the tobacco industry.
McDonnells Indicted and Convicted of Corruption. Ozone Course. Joy, where did you order Ligaplex II? My husband is now semi-retired, so I have to stay within a budget. I know how well you research things, including costs. Already she needs surgery to tighten the ligaments in her hips. Does anyone out there have or know someone who has this syndrome? If so, what natural Therapies or supplements have helped this? Thank you! Roseann, Ive heard of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome.
I did notice that the lead researcher of this study works at Pharma Nord, which is a dietary supplement maker in Europe. That may or may not mean a conflict of interest. I think the study I linked to is basically the researcher, taking a guess at what he thinks would help EDS. It would appear ebay was the last chance. Human trials under way in the UK. Should only take another years before we have access. Manganese is a main ingredient in Ligaplex II and managanese is a mineral needed for bone health…..
Many, I believe are probably deficient in manganese, I was pretty low in when I had a mineral test done….. My profound thanks to you Joe Cannon. Way back in January I believe I learned of Anatabloc from your website here.
My 14 year-old daughter has autism and at the time was experiencing terrible behavioral problems. As I slowly titrated Rosie to a higher dose, I was able to eliminate the atypical anti-psychotic she was taking for aggression.
So far, knock on anything-you-want, this has not been the case in over a year on Anatabloc for Rosie. This is VERY inconsistent. Any help anyone here can provide me to reach out to these families would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for updating me on the FDA classifying anatabine a drug also. I was not aware of that ruling.
The decision on classifying it still as a drug came only on September 12, in response to an appeal by Rock Creek Pharmaceutical. I believe that is a factor the FDA looks at. Sadly, it is more likely the pressure of drug companies on FDA to put the hammer down on an all natural alternative which has been a war for decades as FDA has always been in the pocket of big drug companies. What doctor is going to write a prescription for a now new drug they never heard of.
Joe you make a good point. But anyone could overdose on a myriad of simple vitamin supplements available on the retail shelf. Those are commonly sold in quantities not found in nature. More than 60, instances of vitamin toxicity are reported annually to US poison control centers. Annual Reports. Accessed Feb 1 Want to talk about OTC testosterone? I find it peculiar how anatabine has been singled-out here.
No easy answers here. Jeanne, yes there are no easy answers here. That said, it would have been nice if Rock Creek Pharm did some studies of side effects in people before they marketed the product. Do you know the story behind anatabine? Its anti-inflammatory properties were discovered by a scientist at Johns-Hopkins who was researching the affects of second-hand smoke.
His sample group was Flight Attendants who had spent years in confined airplane cabins breathing smoke filled air. He discovered amongst this group a very low incidence of inflammatory diseases. From there he determined it was the anatabine in the tobacco that provided this resistance. When I recognized that Anatabloc was really helping my 13 year-old daughter — it seemed too good to be true. So like a mad-woman I spent literally days trying to find ANY human risk involved with the consumption of anatabine.
Most of the research focused on the impact of tobacco consumption, which was usually through smoking. But the noxious effects of tobacco were always from the tar, nicotine and the fact that it was being consumes through air-passages. Jeanne, as I understand the anatabloc story, it was star scientific, trying to find a healthier cigarette that noticed the effects and later attributed the effects to anatabine.
How much anatabine is in a pack of cigarettes and how does that compare to what is in a pack of anatabloc? Are they the same or different? We also have to look at absorbption in the lungs vs absorption orally.
They may or may not be the same. I looked at all the anatabloc studies and never saw these questions answered. I think these are some reasons for the FDA taking action. As for Johns Hopkins, if you look through the comments you will see this mentioned previously. If I remember, Star Scientific aka rock creek pharm got into some trouble for associating itself with in press releases.
Turns out Johns Hopkins did not study anatabloc. I believe it was a scientist who had some affiliation with Johns Hopkins but he did not do the research in association with Johns Hopkins.
Pub med is a good source to get information from. You could call me a junkie in that way too. I believe they do this to raise the stock price to make them money. There are stock investors monitoring this conversation too. Just keep that in the back of your mind as you read websites. For the record, I do not own stock in rock creek pharm.
Joe thank you for your time in responding to my posts. Does everything HAVE to be posted? I read the articles on Johns-Hopkins and Anatabloc. Mullan decided to see if it could help people with Alzheimers. BTW what was the name of the Johns Hopkins doctor who noted anatabine had anti-inflammatory properties?
If yes, this might explain the J-H controversy. Let me know. The only supplement that actually works and it gets pulled. Go figure. Thanks again! Jeannie-Marie, A petition is a great idea. Have gone to the Credo site where you can start a petition on their site with their members? Thanks so much for posting your testimony of experience with your daughter taking Anatabloc. That is truly a heart felt story.
Thank-you so much Allan. Mullan at the Roskamp Institute. We have nothing to lose. Hopefully, now that it seems near impossible to have it approved as a dietary supplement, it will come back on the market in this reincarnation.
With Anatabloc they pay nothing. Allan I never, ever give hope — and neither should you! Newswise — NEW YORK, NY September 16, — Patients facing death or irreversible disease progression — most of whom have exhausted all approved treatment options — sometimes seek access to unapproved and unproven interventions. Of particular concern, the researchers point out, is the escalating use of social media by patients and their representatives to pressure decision-makers into providing unapproved drugs, devices, or vaccines on the grounds of compassionate use.
This shift, they say, highlights inequitable distribution of unapproved treatments: Those most capable of exploiting their social relationships online or off-line are more likely to gain access to unapproved treatments — and the possibility of medical benefit. This has been demonstrated recently with scarce supplies of an experimental Ebola treatment being given first to American and European relief workers rather than to the West Africans impacted by the ongoing Ebola epidemic in that region.
The researchers explored the primary factors contributing to the current inequities in compassionate use and similar protocols by analyzing what is available on the subject in published literature and on the internet. In addition, they scoured through resources on the subject provided by other experts in bioethics. Caplan added. Some companies allow access under the guidance of well thought out policies; some companies decline to allow access; some companies grant access but have no set guidelines; and some companies change their practices midstream as a result of public pressure.
This lack of uniform policy is confusing to those seeking unapproved treatments. In fact, the FDA almost always defers to the company that is developing the unapproved treatment to decide whether to grant compassionate use access. However, increasing access to unapproved therapies may prove detrimental in the long run to longstanding and effective research and clinical trial systems through which interventions are proven effective and safe, and given regulatory approval.
Likewise, efforts to facilitate the use of unapproved treatments in terminally ill patients or others who need immediate treatment may result in those individuals being at increased risk of harm. Furthermore, if very sick patients get worse after treatment with an unapproved intervention, that intervention may be fairly or unfairly tarnished by the adverse outcomes.
Researchers also point out that questions about who should receive access to unapproved treatments arise in both developed and less-developed nations. These treatment requests most often concern both infectious and chronic diseases, and both children and adults. The researchers conclude that the issue of access to unapproved treatments demands both an analysis of what is happening domestically and globally, and a global response that is driven not by innuendo and outside pressures, but by solid data.
Equity, always at risk in our health care system, will again be flaunted. To accurately depict the current application of compassionate use, the researchers are continuing their work by conducting stakeholder interviews and surveys; and by examining relevant case studies from the United States and other nations.
Ladenson's work was supported by private philanthropy so I took a look at NIH's grants database to see if the nation's medical research agency has funded any work on anatabine as a therapeutic agent. Thus far, only three investigators have received support for anatabine work, all from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and only as a biomarker in smoking cessation studies Dr. Sharon M. Stephen S. Hecht, University of Minnesota, ; and Dr. Cheryl Ann Oncken, University of Connecticut, , From a regulatory standpoint, Star Scientific seems to have begun digging their grave since when they began citing scientific studies of anatabine, done mostly in rodents, to make drug claims for their products on their website.
Moreover, they were marketing their products under dietary supplement claims that anatabine was a naturally-occurring food constituent.
Although anatabine is present as an inherent constituent of foods such as cauliflower, eggplant, potatoes, and tomatoes, FDA is not aware of any information indicating that anatabine itself is an article used for food. In the absence of such information, anatabine is a new dietary ingredient subject to the premarket notification requirement in section a 2 of the Act [21 U. The sponsor isn't Star Scientific or Rock Creek because they are still only talking about filing an IND as of their shareholder meeting at the end of last year.
The FDA is only able to provide information on approved drug product applications. Patent No. And just in October, they were awarded another U. The implication is that the company wasn't using a plant extract as might an herbal medicine company. Instead, they were making an unapproved, synthetic drug that was then being formulated into tablets for Anatabloc and CigRx, as well as two facial cosmetics under the Anatabloc brand.
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