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is the am. lung assn. associated with or part of the government=
like ama, fda? there is oversees stem cell that does not have the same regulations as the us. has anyone looked into this?

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pacathy | @pacathy | Mar 27 7:15am

Just to answer part of your question.

The lung Association is not part of government. It is a nonprofit group organized initially to fight TB and now other lung diseases. More info is at http://www.lung.org

AMA is the American Medical Association and it is not part of government either. It is a group physicians voluntarily join if they want. Here’s a link. https://www.ama-assn.org

The FDA IS a government program which was started about 100 years ago to stop the sale of mislabeled and harmful drugs and foods. Imagine needing to buy amoxicillin and the drug rep has some labeled as such, but is only a colored pill with filler and no amoxicillin in it. Before FDA, there wasn’t a way to know. We take that for granted these days. The role has expanded in years since.

As far as stem cells-we have a different political climate here than overseas. That’s all I’ll say about that.

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