Florida FDA raids = 8 dead, charges said still pending

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Big Pharma has it's own police.F.

 

 

http://www.thenhf.com/health_freedom_news_07.htm

 

 

 

Florida FDA raids = 8 dead, charges said still pending

 

 

 

As of mid-February, the outcome of heavy-handed raids

at two nutritional clinics in Florida the prior Oct.

11 was:

 

• At least eight deaths from cancer patients unable to

receive their supplies of an aloe vera-derived

experimental anticancer drug.

 

• No filing of charges (the federal court affidavit

explaining the charges had been sealed for 120 days);

and

 

• The return by the FDA of some of the confiscated

computer files seized in the raids.

 

“So we still don’t know what they’re up to,” licensed

nutritional counselor Joe DiStefano, operator of the

Medical Centers for Preventive and Nutritional

Medicine in Tampa and St. Petersburg Fl., told the

NHF.

 

Last December, DiStefano told the NHF (HFN, XX:1) that

even by then “two

of our patients have already died, and some others are

failing – they’ve been on

Albarin to save their lives.”

 

Albarin is the brand name of an aloe vera product

developed by Texas medical researcher Ivan Danhof

MD,PhD.

 

On Oct. 11, some 120 federal, state and county agents

raided the two DiStefano clinics and the DiStefano

residence. The home of Dr. Danhof in Grand Prairie TX,

was also raided.

 

DiStefano, who has operated the clinics for 36 years

and which were under the medical supervision of Daniel

Mayer, DO, said he and his staff believed they were

involved in a phase II clinic trial of Albarin under

terms of an “institutional review board” (IRB)

agreement on the way to securing an IND (investigative

new drug) status, and not using an unlicensed drug.

 

As DiStefano told the American Free Press Feb. 4:

 

“(Dr. Danhof) asked if we would help him in his

further research. We have a non-profit cancer center

providing services for those who can’t afford (them)

and decided this was something the public could use …

 

“We began our program about three years ago and we

were presenting our data to Dr. Danhof so that he

could move to his next phase, when some unknown

parties complained to the FDA, saying that we were

using an unapproved drug.

 

“On Oct. 11, the FDA decided to act and they sent 40

storm troopers into my home and 40 troopers into each

of our clinics. They had no arrest warrants, only

search warrants. They set everyone down for six to

eight hours and went through everything that they

could get their hands on.”

 

Said DiStefano of patients who were receiving the

drug:

 

“. . . Many of these patients who were taking the aloe

vera were taking advantage of their ‘last chance,’ so

to speak.

 

“They were at Phase IV, in hospices, suffering severe

pain, and had no place else to go. Conventional

physicians had given up on them, but the patients had

responded very well to our treatment.

 

“In a short time they have been able to come off the

morphine painkillers because our treatment does indeed

relieve the pain. And to emphasize the fact: we have

seen the cancerous tumors shrink from our treatment.

 

“We are not able to get the drug back into our hands

right now and we will lose our patients who have been

responding in a positive fashion.

 

“One man who came down had less than 30 days to live,

according to his doctors, and came into the program in

a wheelchair. But he was walking after three months

of our treatment and was able to sit up and read

books.

 

“However, now that he’s off our treatment, thanks to

the FDA, he’s back in bed and not doing very well.

 

“So we’re trying our hardest to get enough people

together to lobby Congress to pressure the FDA to get

our material back in our hands to at least continue

treating those who were getting treatment.”