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Four ivermectin pills are displayed on top of usage instructions for the drug. Recently, the FDA walked back its position on doctors prescribing the drug. (Callista Images / Getty Images)
After years of denigrating ivermectin as dangerous and as “horse medicine,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been forced to retreat on its all-out attack on the medicine after three doctors sued the agency in federal court for impeding their right as medical providers to prescribe the medicine to their patients.
The FDA made a key admission in court during an Tuesday proceeding in which lawyers for the doctors asked the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals whether doctors have a right to prescribe ivermectin since the FDA approved the drug for use in humans way back in 1986.
So, what was the FDA’s shocking admission?
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