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Textbook case of bad media on ‘stem cell treatment’ clinic: Kirk Cousins Caribbean trip

January 24, 2024 / By / 9 Comments
Kirk Cousins, stem cell treatment

It’s frustrating to see so much bad media coverage of celebrity trips to clinics to get supposed stem cell treatment of various kinds. Part of the concern here stems from ordinary people taking risks by following the example of the famous people.  Good journalism should ask tough questions, talk to experts, and not yield an …

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Review of DVC Stem & marketing of unproven therapies

August 29, 2023 / By / 12 Comments
DVC Stem video featuring Lou Ferrigno

A clinic called DVC Stem selling unproven stem cells has popped up prominently on the web recently. It’s a relatively new and in some ways puzzlingly dominant presence on the stem cell section of the Internet. We should pay attention to these kinds of changes on the web. They can impact many people’s healthcare choices, …

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Fact-check: F grade for irresponsible stem cell COVID-19 cure piece

March 1, 2021 / By / 4 Comments
vitro biopharma stem cells covid 19

At times there’s been seriously bad journalism covering COVID-19 itself including implications of various things being a COVID cure. Of course, media coverage of stem cell research itself sometimes ends up being a train-wreck of hype too. More recently we’ve seen irresponsible journalism also around the specific idea of stem cells for COVID-19, but sometimes …

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FDA leader Stephen Hahn was pressured to aid Texas firm Direct Biologics

November 23, 2022 / By / 3 Comments
Former FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn.

An FDA FOIA dump of text messages of former Commissioner Stephen Hahn suggests that a Texas regenerative firm called Direct Biologics benefited from political pressure on him in mid-2020. Then he was asked again to help in early 2021. This was shortly before he resigned at the start of the Biden Administration. The push came from …

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Stem cell therapy for diabetes updates: expected IPO, CRISPR, new pubs, more

June 23, 2021 / By / 3 Comments
stem cell therapy for diabetes

The idea of stem cell therapy for diabetes is both exciting and in a way practical. By that I mean that there’s a good common sense foundation here. The idea of stem cell therapy for diabetes What do I mean? If medical researchers can replace lost beta cells in the pancreas using stem cell-produced beta …

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