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"The reason Kobe, A-Rod, and other athletes travel to Germany for their biologic treatments involves a vague FDA regulation that mandates that all human tissues (such as blood and bone marrow) can only be "minimally manipulated," or else they are classified as a drug and subject to much stricter governmental regulations. The problem, of course, is figuring out what "minimal" means in the context of biologics. Can the blood be heated to a higher temperature, as with Regenokine? Spun in a centrifuge? Can certain proteins be filtered out?2 Nobody knows the answer to these questions, and most American doctors are unwilling to risk the ire of regulators."
Yay, let's all cross our fingers for more government "help" with our healthcare.
-XC
regveljohnson · 4384 days ago · link ·
Are you honestly complaining about government intervention in healthcare in relation to an article saying how much better the healthcare is in a country with socialized medicine (Germany). You fuckhead dickholes should really take a page from how the Germans do medicine rather than clinging to your ideological sickness (pun intended).
thenewgreen · 4385 days ago · link ·
b_b, not sure if you ever saw this post from mk: It should be easier for me to give mice brain tumors but it's long been a favorite of mine and I think it's certainly relevant here.
You should try to kill a rat in a lab! You can go to the hardware store and buy live traps, kill traps, poison, you can hit them with a shovel, or generally do whatever you want to get rid of rats in your home. To kill a rat under deep anesthesia in a lab requires a license, semi-annual inspections, a list on file with your institution detailing how many animals you will kill in which time frame, which takes (literally) months to approve. And, if you want to do the same procedure for a different experiment, you get to start the whole process over! I'm not saying we have a great track record of putting safety before profits, but there has to be a better way.
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regveljohnson · 4384 days ago · link ·
Sure thing Mengele. Let's abandon all ethics in the pursuit of science. The funny thing is that once this is done, the science rapidly goes off the rails and you end up with a bunch of bullshit useless results.
Killing rats isn't a good way to deal with an infestation either. You have to remove their food and water sources and preferably introduce predators to the environment.
thenewgreen · 4385 days ago · link ·
I think what we need is a regulating body that oversees the FDA. The SFDA or Super Food and Drug Administration. Seriously though, we need a regulating body but it needs to be a smart and efficient organization. How do we change this? Is Germany's population more at risk due to shoddy regulators? I've not heard of any issues regarding this. What do they do differently?