by rss feed | Jul 1, 2026 | News Feeds, PCAC peptides, Peptides, Politics
Recently, I predicted that RFK Jr. may stack the key pharmacy compounding committee, called PCAC, with fans of unproven peptides. Kennedy wants the unproven “pop peptides”, as I call them, to be unleashed. If the PCAC advises allowing pop peptide...
by rss feed | Mar 12, 2026 | News Feeds, peptide stacks, peptide un-ban, Peptides, Politics
RFK Jr. might be the biggest peptides fan of all. Or it could be the compounding pharmacy industry or Joe Rogan. For a few years, compounders were profiting from marketing the most popular of these unproven peptide drugs (what I call “pop peptides”). The...
by rss feed | Jul 30, 2025 | FDA, News Feeds, Politics, Prasad Tidmarsh, Vinay Prasad departure
Vinay Prasad is out at the FDA after less than three months. It may be the shortest tenure as CBER Director in FDA history. This is an ominous sign for the agency, but probably not just for the reasons you might first think. Vinay Prasad’s departure and gaps in...
by rss feed | Jun 28, 2022 | embryonic stem cell research, embryonic stem cell research Roe, News Feeds, opinion, Politics
When I first started this blog back in 2010 the most contentious issue on the more political side of our field was federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. It was something you couldn’t take for granted. Some history on embryonic stem cell funding in...
