• Darkard@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    In the month since Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary promoted the decades-old drug from GSK,

    That’s as far as I needed to read. GlaxoSmithKline pushed a few dollars into Marty’s hands and now they get to see a spike in profit. That’s all this is, another grift. Same as invermectin, same as every other drug that they promote.

    Mouth breathing MAGAs who do and don’t trust experts, and who will and won’t put anything strange in thier bodies, and who do and don’t just follow what the media says like sheep.

    Pathetic

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    4 months ago

    Leucovorin is approved to treat chemotherapy side effects but can be prescribed off-label for autism symptoms.

    “It puts physicians in a very tough position because they’re being asked to prescribe something that is not evidence-based,” said Dr. Shafali Jeste, an autism expert and head of pediatrics at UCLA, who does not prescribe leucovorin despite repeated requests.