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Welcome to the Life Extension Legislative Action Center. From here you can examine and take action on important current issues featured in Life Extension magazine and our web site. Feel free to explore the full capabilities of our Legislative Action Center including the ability to search for elected officials (both state and federal) by name, state, district, and zip code. You can also research current and past legislation, including how each congressperson voted for each issue. In the Legislative Action Center, you can locate anyone who can help you make a difference - from members of your local media to the President of the United States.
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Help Stop FDA from Making Estriol and Other Bio-Identical Hormones Illegal
Recently, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered various pharmacies to stop filling prescriptions for estriol. Estriol is a bio-identical hormone, meaning it is chemically identical to the substance produced within a woman's own body! Although doctors recommend this important therapy to their patients going through menopause, as well as for other medically necessary reasons, FDA has taken it upon themselves to determine that they know better than your doctor what is good for you. FDA has prohibited the use of compounded estriol even though they have acknowledged that they are unaware of any adverse events associated with use of compounded medications containing estriol.
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Stop allowing the FDA to dictate what you can do to protect your own health!
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently published the results of their own internal audit. The findings were shocking and included the following:
- The FDA cannot fulfill its mission because its scientific workforce does not have sufficient capacity and capability; and
- The development of medical products based on "new science" cannot be adequately regulated by the FDA.
Some respected publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, took notice of this damning self-evaluation and sounded the much overdue alarm by writing "Particularly in complex and specialized fields like genomics and biotechnology medicine, the FDA lacks the basic competence ‘to understand the impact of product use, to maintain ongoing currency with their evolution or to evaluate the sophisticated products produced' and ‘to support innovation in the industries and markets that it regulates.'"
You can help make new scientific and medical advances available to all Americans by writing your Congressperson NOW to demand that they instruct the FDA to stop denying Americans access to the latest scientific and medical breakthroughs.
Featured in Life Extension magazine, July 2008
The FDA Indicts Itself
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What You Can Do to Stop Needless Cancer Deaths
Scientists have identified novel ways of treating cancer, but too little of this new technology is being used in clinical practice. When new discoveries are made, drug companies spend years seeking a patent, and then more years carrying it through the cumbersome bureaucratic approval process. A major reason so many cancer patients die today is an antiquated regulatory system that causes effective therapies to be delayed (or suppressed altogether).
Featured in Life Extension Consumer Alerts, July 2007
What You Can Do to Stop Needless Cancer Deaths
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HR 1561 (Senate bill S.1082) - Please Amend to Protect Dietary Supplements
The Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions has approved S.1082, The Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act. This Act gives broad new regulatory powers to the FDA that can be used to attack dietary supplements. This Act also turns the FDA into a drug development company that exposes Americans to new and dangerous drugs that have little testing to prove safety or effectiveness.
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“Health Freedom Protection Act” Reintroduced in the House
Please support the Health Freedom Protection Act, H.R. 2117. A bill has been reintroduced in the United States House of Representatives that would prohibit the FDA from denying consumers access to truthful health information. The name of this bill is the Health Freedom Protection Act (H.R. 2117). The original sponsors of this bill introduced it by exposing the FDA’s inappropriate censorship of life-saving scientific information. It is imperative that concerned citizens let their congressional representatives know how important passage of the Health Freedom Protection Act (H.R. 2117) is.
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Prevent DHEA from becoming an illegal drug!
Senate bill 762 (S.762) and House Resolution 1249 (H.R. 1249) were introduced early last year seeking to classify DHEA as a controlled substance under the anabolic steroid category, something that this over-the-counter dietary supplement is not. More recently, Senate bill 2470 (S.2470) was introduced, seeking to make it illegal to sell DHEA to anyone under the age of 18 without a prescription.
Featured in Life Extension magazine, June 2007
How Congress Is Being Misled to Think That DHEA Is an “Anabolic Steroid” |
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