LSD Research Returns - FDA and Regulatory Oversight

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What a surprise to read this fascinating San Francisco Chronical article, LSD's long, strange trip back into the lab. According to the article:

It still isn't easy to get an LSD study off the ground. Researchers must get permission from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Drug Enforcement Administration plus state regulators, and they need approval from the institution they work for. Then they have to get approval for the source of the actual drug - in the case of UCSF, researchers are using LSD that was manufactured years ago in Switzerland.

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FDA Approves First New Nucleic Acid HIV Test

Updated September 25, 2023

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This just in. The FDA approved a new HIV blood test that screens for two uncommon strains of the virus recently detected in the U.S. The news release reports, FDA Approves First Nucleic Acid Test to Screen for Additional Types of HIV in Donated Blood and Tissue. This is important for a couple of reasons . . .

• The test can simultaneously detect HIV-2 and HIV-1 Group O strains. Both types of HIV are mainly found among patients in Africa, but the FDA said they have recently been detected in the U.S.
• It provides better protection for patients