by Sasha Late on Friday, 8 February, Bob Miller announced the end of his hunger strike to get Ampligen approved for people with ME/CFS. Our community had never seen anything like this and I hope we never have to again. It hasn’t been easy watching Bob get weaker and weaker on his video diary and I’m sure there’s a collective
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by Sasha The FDA may have disapproved Ampligen but Bob Miller isn’t giving up his hunger strike. Visibly weaker in a video clip on his Facebook page, on Day 9 of his hunger strike, Bob moved on to the next, logical target: he wants Secretary of Health Kathleen Sebelius to have the National Institutes of Health conduct a clinical trial
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by Sasha Bob Miller has started a hunger strike to push for FDA approval of Ampligen. He and his wife, Courtney Alexander, who are well-known for drawing President Obama’s attention to the plight of people with ME/CFS, urge us not to do the same. Instead, they’d like us to send the email below, alerting key decision-makers to his strike, to
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by Sasha “There comes a point in human suffering when acceptable risk is most appropriately determined for oneself, not by government.” So said Suzy, in an online comment about the failure of the FDA Advisory Committee on Ampligen to vote in a manner that would have got approval for the drug’s use for patients with ME/CFS. But it’s not too
ContinueTry to leave your calendar open from 8am-5pm EST on the 20th for the FDA’s hearing in Ampligen! Information about the meeting is available at December 20, 2012 Meeting of the Arthritis Drugs Advisory Committee (not mistitled!). The webcast will take place at https://collaboration.fda.gov/aac122012/ and Phoenix Rising will attempt to embed the video locally to make it easier to simultaneously
Continueby Cort Johnson Call to Action for First Drug For ME/CFS: the Ampligen FDA Advisory Hearing URGENT: ME/CFS Patient “A C T I O N” A Call To Impact Our (me/cfs) Nation For All ME/CFS Patients, Families and Friends (U.S. & Non U.S.) Organizer: Robert Miller, Cort Johnson and TEAM Contact: 511bobmiller42@gmail.com For the first time, people with chronic fatigue
Continue Posted by Cort Johnson Moving quickly, Ampligen’s producer, Hemispherx Biopharma, filed its ‘complete response’ to the FDA’s request for data just 53 days after the agency agreed to relax its requirements for review of the drug. Hemispherx’s ‘complete response’ means we will know by the end of January and perhaps sooner whether Ampligen becomes the first FDA approved drug for
ContinueDiscuss this article on the forums Written by Kelvin Lord I never liked report cards as a student, but since today marks the completion of 14 weeks on Ampligen, signifying that I’ve just passed the quarter-mile mark, I thought I’d give you an update on my progress, by way of some mid-term grades. After having 28 infusions of this amazing
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