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Hitting Pause on Criticism of the FDA, Just for Today

Pharmacy Checkers

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is just one agency out of the many that make up the United States Department of Health and Human Services and, from PharmacyChecker’s relatively small (non-regulatory) role of helping verify online pharmacies to protect public health, I’ve learned just how insanely massive its mandate is.

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Can you trust Turkey-approved Alipza? Is it the same as U.S.-Approved Livalo?

Pharmacy Checkers

This post is mostly a story about a very well manufactured, safe and effective, foreign version of an FDA-approved drug. These drugs are normally far less expensive than the FDA-approved version sold in the U.S. John’s doctor was skeptical of drugs bought online from other countries. Is the drug safe? Let’s call him John.

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COVID-19 Pandemic Coverage

XTalks

Drugs and Vaccines. The most promising news about any drug thus far in the pandemic just came out of the UK where Southampton researchers together with Synairgen showed that an inhaled form of interferon-? production and that treatment with this new drug may boost the lung’s antiviral defenses against the virus. percent in 2021.