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The FDA has agreed to delete and never republish several social-media posts suggesting that ivermectin, a drug that some doctors used to treat COVID-19, is for animals and not humans. While the FDA still does not approve of using ivermectin to treat COVID, it settled Thursday a lawsuit brought by three doctors who sued it, as well as the Department of Health and Human Services and its secretary, Xavier Becerra, and FDA secretary Robert Califf. All parties have settled. The lawsuit, filed on June 2, 2022, was brought by doctors Mary Talley Bowden, Paul Marik and Robert Apter, each of...

A bill working its way through the New Hampshire legislature would allow residents to receive ivermectin from pharmacies with a prescription of a doctor or an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) for the off-label treatment of Covid-19.House Bill 2011 would allow pharmacists to "dispense ivermectin under the delegated prescriptive authority of the physician or APRN (Advanced Practice Registered Nurses), specify a mechanism to document screening performed and the prescription in the patient's medical record, and include a plan for evaluating and treating adverse events," reads the bill. "Any such prescription shall be regarded as being issued for a legitimate medical...

NORFOLK — A Norfolk physician who sued Sentara Healthcare over its ban on administering ivermectin to COVID-19 patients has resigned from his position at Eastern Virginia Medical School. Dr. Paul Marik announced his departure Tuesday in a news release from the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, an organization he co-founded with other critical care doctors at the start of the pandemic. Marik resigned to spend more time on “multiple causes” — including the FLCCC — according to the release.

A medical doctor was stripped of his ability to treat patients after he pioneered an in-hospital COVID-19 treatment protocol using generic FDA-approved drugs.Pulmonary (i.e. respiratory) care physician Dr. Paul Marik spoke with Truth for Health Foundation CEO Dr. Lee Vliet in the “Fired for Freedom” conference held on December 7, 2021. Marik is the co-founder of the Frontline Critical Care COVID Alliance, one of the first organizations to develop a successful multi-drug protocol for treating COVID-19 patients hospitalized in critical care units.The chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School and practiced at Sentara Norfolk General...

A physician and medical researcher who is suing his Virginia hospital for preventing him from treating COVID-19 patients with effective drugs that have become politically charged said his effort is on behalf of physicians across the United States and around the world whose relationship with their patients has been sabotaged. Dr. Paul Marik, a professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School, said it’s “completely outrageous” that the hospital in Norfolk where he serves as ICU director is telling physicians what they can prescribe and not prescribe, violating the doctor-patient relationship and the Hippocratic Oath.“This is really unprecedented in the world,” he...

Bureaucrats telling 'experienced clinician how to practice'.. A physician and medical researcher who is suing his Virginia hospital for preventing him from treating COVID-19 patients with effective drugs that have become politically charged said his effort is on behalf of physicians across the United States and around the world whose relationship with their patients has been sabotaged. Dr. Paul Marik, a professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School, said it's "completely outrageous" that the hospital in Norfolk where he serves as ICU director is telling physicians what they can prescribe and not prescribe, violating the doctor-patient relationship and the Hippocratic Oath....

A Norfolk doctor has filed a lawsuit against Sentara Norfolk General Hospital this week. This is the latest update in the News 3 investigation: “Norfolk doctor leading charge for controversial COVID-19 treatment.” In this lawsuit, Doctor Paul Marik , the director of the hospital's critical care unit, says Sentara's ban of its use to treat patients with ivermectin is deadly and against the law. "I think it's criminal. It's immoral and it's illegal," Marik said. "Can you understand the toll that that takes that I have young patients, young patients in the 30s and 40s, who I had to watch...

Dr. Paul Marik of Eastern Virginia Medical School has filed a lawsuit against Sentara Healthcare in Virginia after the hospital banned him from prescribing ivermectin as treatment for COVID. Dr. Marik, who is also a founding member of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care (FLCCC) Alliance, serves as Sentara Norfolk General Hospital's ICU director. He was met by supporters in Norfolk, Virginia when he arrived at the courthouse.According to WND, Dr. Marik appeared in court on Thursday to request for a temporary order to allow him to prescribe ivermectin for COVID while his case progresses. His supporters outside the courthouse...

A new, peer-reviewed study finds that one of the cheap, widely available drugs that has been dismissed by the left, establishment media and many in the health establishment as a treatment for COVID-19 reduces infections, hospitalizations and deaths by about 75%. Ivermectin, in more than 30 trials around the world, causes "repeated, consistent, large magnitude improvements in clinical outcomes’ at all stages of the disease," according to the study, which will be published in the U.S. journal Frontiers of Pharmacology, DailyMail.com reported. The evidence is so strong, the researchers believe, the anti-parasitic drug should become a standard therapy everywhere, hastening...