....The US FDA has lost most of its credibility to senior citizens by providing market protection for Drug Companies... Not just Big Drug Companies. Big Hospital & Big Nursing Home operators fund bogus "evidence-based" research that, for instance, claims "controlling" their diabetic patients average blood glucose levels to twice that or more of non-diabetics is "OK". (Control is skilled labor-intensive (read expensive) for most patients.) And it is OK, if you don't mind blindness, losing your limbs, & dying 15-20 years before your non-diabetic peers, while the FDA sits by complacently... --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .