#stem cells fda

Now that in the past few months the FDA has issued stern statements (one this summer and more recently), both final and draft guidances, and at least one warning letter, what comes next? 

What will the clinics do if anything moving forward?

What if anything will the FDA do in terms of actual concrete actions?

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Regarding potential FDA actions, I’ve just used the word…

Scientist’s dilemma: find a public voice on big issues or stay silent?

There is a scientist’s dilemma: should you speak out on important, sometimes controversial issues in science, where you not only can potentially have positive impact, but also risk being attacked for it?

Or do you remain silent?

I’ve now been blogging for more than 7 years. I’ve battled the often exploitive for-profit stem cell clinics for years. But it goes beyond that. I’ve also worked against…

The car shopping analogy for evaluating stem cell clinics

Patients contact me all the time these days asking about American stem cell clinics. The most common question boils down to “should I get a treatment at clinic X and what things should I think about in trying to make this decision?” I recommend checking out my stem cell treatment guide for patients.

In addition, you might consider an analogy to car shopping. I’ve found it is very helpful.

Buying…

Some stem cell clinics respond to Cell Stem Cell paper with ‘not me, them’

There has been relatively limited response from clinics themselves to the Cell Stem Cell paper that Leigh Turner and I published recently on the scope of the stem cell clinic industry in the U.S. 

We found 570 stem cell clinics and there could easily be 50-100 more that escaped our search methods or that have popped up since we finished our search at the end of February. While not all the clinics…

A stem cell shot in the dark: clinics experiment on patients

Patients are increasingly being used as guinea pigs in the stem cell for-profit clinic world via what I call stem cell shot-in-the-dark procedures. The clinics have no logical basis for claiming that these treatments work and are safe.

As the number of stem cell clinics continues to grow in the US and more physicians add on unproven stem cell injections into their practices as a la carte options,…