{"id":615,"date":"2014-09-17T22:05:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T22:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plinylives.com\/?p=615"},"modified":"2014-09-17T22:05:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T22:05:07","slug":"f-d-a-panel-considers-restricting-testosterone-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"F.D.A. Panel Considers Restricting Testosterone Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article below appeared in the New York Times and it discusses a very important topic for aging males:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"F.D.A. Panel Weighs Restrictions on Testosterone Drugs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/18\/health\/testosterone-drugs-fda.html?_r=0\">F.D.A. Panel Weighs Restrictions on Testosterone Drugs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems that in the past only a small number of men took these drugs but now it has ballooned into a $2 billion industry. According to the F.D.A. panel the benefits of these drugs have not been proven and they may have harmful effects such as heart problems.<\/p>\n<p>The National Institutes of Health is sponsoring <a title=\"NIH-Supported Trial to Study Testosterone Therapy in Older Men \" href=\"http:\/\/www.nih.gov\/news\/health\/nov2009\/nia-02.htm\">a large trial, the T-Trial<\/a>, to investigate the effects of testosterone drugs and the results will be out next year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article below appeared in the New York Times and it discusses a very important topic for aging males: F.D.A. Panel Weighs Restrictions on Testosterone Drugs It seems that in the past only a small number of men took these drugs but now it has ballooned into a $2 billion industry. According to the F.D.A. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,77],"tags":[80,79,81,78],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-information","category-male-health","tag-health-2","tag-males","tag-t-trial","tag-testosterone-drugs","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}