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."


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