Dr Lostritto Talked about the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research within the FDA. The CDER evaluates new drugs and generics ( to make sure they are equivalent. ). The CDER mission is to protect public health, approve drugs, give oversight and regula-tions,safety, drug industry gui-dance,and provide global in-spection teams. CDER drug approvals go through 3 pha-ses: (1) Pre-clinical Research; (2) Clinical studies on humans; and (3) New Drug Application (NDA). The review includes the drug, enclosure, labeling, and contract.

Last Week District Governor Peter Kyle Peter was born and raised in New Zealand and came to the University of Virginia for post-graduate law studies on a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship in 1973. On a World Bank trip to a third world former Soviet Republic that is 90% mountains, he attended a Rotary meeting and was met by a member that spoke good English. In his third world travels for the World Bank, Peter is impressed with the presents of Rotary activity. Rotary membership is expanding outside of the US, but contracting in the US; thus the need to increase each clubs net membership by 2 members. This year’s theme is “Engage Rotary, Change Lives”. The Distinct Conference will be at the Baltimore Hilton Hotel on May 11, 2014 and will have Dr Ben Carson as a guest speaker. Peter presented a Rotary pin to our new member, Jorge Urrutia.
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A Wider Circle is a nonprofit organization to impact poverty in the Washington area by support from the bottom up. As a MD University professor,Mark Bergel discovered families in DC with 35 year old grandmothers (that look 80) living with a daughter and grandchildren and having no food or furniture. Girls are pregnant by age 16 and half the boys are in jail by 16. They are born in poverty with no way out. Government poverty programs are a band aid. A Wider Circle engages directly with their poor clients and provide furniture, food and job interview training. When they are ready, they provide proper cloths for the interview. A Wider Circle’s mission is to provide a way out of poverty. Their web site is www.awidercircle.org.