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    Consumer Confidential: FDA's vampire warning highlights billionaires' obsession with not growing old

    by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times Feb 20, 2019 4 minutes

    The federal government finally took a stand this week on vampires feasting on the blood of the young.

    It's against the practice.

    Actually, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning about older people injecting themselves with the blood plasma of young donors - a fringe therapy that's marketed as a way to fight aging and a variety of illnesses, including dementia, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

    "Simply put, we're concerned that some patients are being preyed upon by unscrupulous actors touting treatments of plasma from young donors as cures and remedies," FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement. "Such treatments have no proven clinical benefits

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