Have you thought about taking peptides that aren't approved by the FDA? Think again. CBS News' chief medical correspondent, @drlapook, shares a cautionary tale from medical history about why testing medications is New: An FDA decision to place 19 peptides on the unsafe list was supported by numerous documented safety concerns, former officials said. Even though demand for peptide therapies has exploded since then, Why Are People Injecting Themselves with Peptides? The New Yorker The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is moving toward allowing compounding pharmacies to produce more than a dozen injectable peptides that were banned because of potentially significant safety risks, the New York