X-Message-Number: 7784 Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 10:47:17 -0700 From: David Brandt-Erichsen <> Subject: "FDA joins battle against aging" CHICAGO--(BW HealthWire)--Feb. 27, 1997--In a bold, innovative, and unexpectedly positive move, FDA clinical investigations branch of the division of Anesthesiology and Drugs Addiction, has solicited the assistance of American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (the nation's largest society of physicians and scientists dedicated to fighting the degenerative effects of aging) to jump-start clinical research (IND's) for a totally new category of pharmaceutical agents "Anti-Aging Therapeutics." This investigation is headed up by Jack Longmire, MD, clinical investigator at the FDA in Rockville, MD, also a 20-year veteran of Emergency Medicine. According to Dr. Ronald Klatz, President who speaks for 1500 members in 35 different countries worldwide - "Members of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) located in Chicago, and other physician groups have up to this point been frustrated by the lack of official recognition of aging as a treatable disorder. We welcome this announcement, as it signals a new attitude of openness by the FDA. Thousands of physicians practicing innovative medicine and their millions of patients suffering from the degenerative effects of aging have been waiting for this news." Dr. Klatz's newly released book Grow Young With hGH, published by Harper Collins, reports on the dramatic aging reversals seen in the elderly now using growth hormone which was just approved by the FDA for use in adults. "This is a powerful and important action by the FDA as one can divide all disease into four categories: Infection, Trauma, Genetic, and Degenerative disorders of aging. The last of which consume over 1/2 of the entire United States healthcare budget, or about $660 billion/per year. It is vital that we actively pursue Anti-Aging Therapies, least America become a nation of nursing homes when in the year 2025 there will be two 65-year-olds for every teenager." Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7784