Dr. Berkson's Best Health Radio Podcast

Dr. Mary J. Ruwart is a scientist, ethicist, libertarian author/activist and a close girl friend of Dr. Berkson’s. Thus, this show is informative but also down-home; a chat between friends. Dr. Ruwart has a Ph.D. in Biophysics and was a research scientist at The Upjohn Company involved in developing new therapies for diverse diseases, such as liver cirrhosis and AIDS. Presently, in Texas, Dr. Ruwart oversees IRB’s which allow peer-research to unfold in proper regulatory pathways. Dr. Ruwart writes an Internet column, Ask Dr. Ruwart, featured in the Advocates for Self-Government “Liberator OnLine” e-zine. In this show you’ll learn: How the lack of testing kits helped the spread of COVID. Why the CDC’s original testing kits didn’t work. The FDA’s role. The official “change” of the FDA in 1962 and how this effects each one of us. How each of us, the average person, can have some input. What the average person can do to help solve some of these problems. Dr. Ruwart wrote a must-have book on how the FDA got to b