COVID-19

Rudy Giuliani now plugging unproven stem cells for COVID19: is Trump next?

February 1, 2021 / By / 8 Comments
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Things are getting worse with the COVID19 pandemic and in parallel there is increasing hype including from clinics that somehow stem cells or similar products could help with the latest (and most worrisome) development being a bombshell tweet from Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani. The former mayor of New York and Trump frontman just tweeted this …

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As clinics buzz about coronavirus, COVID19 patient given non-FDA-approved exosomes?

February 1, 2021 / By / 4 Comments
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When the number of stem cell clinical studies and trials listed for COVID-19 first started spiraling upward it seemed likely that stem cell clinics and other firms in that arena would get interested. I thought that we’d see the unproven regenerative medicine coronavirus bandwagon quickly grow. Unfortunately, there are reasons to be increasingly concerned here. For instance, …

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Recommended regenerative medicine reads plus COVID-19 stem cell hype

February 1, 2021 / By / 1 Comment
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Despite the COVID-19 pandemic there are still some research things we can do including data analysis as well as reading new papers and media articles on science, including regenerative medicine. If the weather’s good and you have wi-fi (or you print articles still on paper) you can even do this out in the fresh air …

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Patient Q&A#2: Are autoimmune or stem cell transplant patients at higher risk from COVID-19?

February 27, 2021 / By / 4 Comments
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I’m continuing my stem cell patient Q&A series and today’s Q&A#2 post is focused on whether autoimmune patients generally or specifically those who have received chemo and hematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCT) are at higher risk from COVID-19? Multiple patients have asked me this. It’s a great question and obviously urgent right now during the …

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Athersys & Mesoblast stem cells for COVID-19?

February 1, 2021 / By / 7 Comments
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Could two stem cell biotechs Athersys and Mesoblast help in the battle against the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19? Stem cells, ARDS, and COVID-19 I’ve already written two pieces about the idea of using stem cells to battle COVID-19 (here and here), the sometimes fatal disease that arises from infection with the novel coronavirus. Older patients …

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‘We Cannot Stick to the Rules’: claims of stem cells saving COVID-19 patients

February 1, 2021 / By / 13 Comments
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I’ve been watching as the number of registered stem cell-related clinical trials for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) disease COVID-19 continues to spiral upward, mostly in China. During the last two weeks, I’ve been trying to carve out a bit of time to look at these actual trials in more depth, but I admittedly haven’t gotten …

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