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Winner of The Screamers Science Hype Award: local TV stations pushing stem cell clinics

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The Screamers Award, Science Hype Award

It’s important to pay attention to science hype, which is the rationale for The Screamers Science Hype Awards. As far as I know, it’s the only award for science hype. Exaggerating research and medical potential clearly does harm. I wrote a few weeks ago about the nominees for the 2024 The Screamers Awards. Now it’s […]

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Weekly reads: patient views on stem cell clinics, vertebrate super-pygmies, Tasmanian tiger, low back pain

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What do patients who go to stem cell clinics really think of their experiences? It can be hard to get good data on this important question. For that reason, it was great to see a new article on this topic. With perhaps around 2,000 unproven clinics in the U.S., these firms are likely to have

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Silence from FDA Commissioner Robert Califf on stem cell clinics is a problem

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Robert Califf, FDA Commissioner

FDA Commissioners including Robert Califf have radically different approaches to the job including oversight of marketing of unproven stem cells. As to stem cell clinics, some have been very engaged, while others seem the opposite. During his second go as FDA Commissioner, Robert Califf has been vocal about many topics. However, as best as I

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Weekly reads: brain aging, perinatal stem cell clinics, $1M lab meat fine bill

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brain aging

What happens during brain aging and how can we tell if dementia is coming? Are there particular early hallmarks? There are an increasing number of medical tests for predicting or detecting dementia. Alzheimer’s disease can often be detected early. But what do patients or their doctors do with such information? Until recently there weren’t any

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Surprising new FDA remarks to AABB on cord biologics misuse & stem cell clinics

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AABB, FDA

The Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies or AABB recently had a very useful Q&A with the FDA on cord blood use. There are some important new things from the FDA on the marketing and use of cord blood in there. The agency was also quite blunt in some ways about the challenges,

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$7.8 million verdict in stem cell clinics case against Neil Riordan

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RMI

Those who follow the stem cell field might be familiar with stem cell clinic operator Neil Riordan. According to a recent press release and some news reports, Riordan just had some bad news in court related to a stem cell clinic in the U.S. Stem cell clinic lawsuit As background, why do those running stem

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New data on stem cell clinics, INDs, & more including from FDA itself

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The International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy or ISCT held a really interesting webinar yesterday on the FDA and unproven stem cell clinics. It was focused on the expiration of the FDA’s discretionary period on unproven stem cell clinics. What will the FDA do now? The webinar included some ideas and also quite a

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FDA to end ‘grace period’ on stem cell clinics: agency should ‘go big’ on continued offenders

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Stem cell clinics violating federal regulations have been a major problem for the FDA. Next month the FDA faces a historic moment on this problem. A grace period for clinics to become FDA compliant ends in May. Even so, it appears that hundreds of clinics will remain non-compliant after that. Some of the worst clinics

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