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Fountain Life update: lawsuit by doc, high performance aging, Celularity trial plan

January 18, 2024 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / Leave a Comment

A New Rochelle doctor has filed suit against the healthcare clinic firm Fountain Life alleging fraud. Now seems like a good time for an update on the firm. Peter Diamandis along with Bob Hariri, life coach Tony Robbins, and surgeon William Kapp founded Fountain Life, an early detection-focused healthcare company. Are they also a longevity firm? To […]

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Superior Healthcare stem cell clinic to pay $250K+ in AG settlement

January 26, 2023 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / Leave a Comment

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State regulators are starting to catch up with stem cell clinics and Georgia is a hot spot at the moment with a firm formerly known as Superior Healthcare now getting a large monetary hit. It was just a couple of weeks ago that we heard that a Georgia court in a different case sentenced a

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StemGenex, unproven clinic sued by patients, morphs into Advanced Cell Medicine?

June 19, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

The unproven stem cell clinic StemGenex appears to now be called Advanced Cell Medicine. StemGenex is facing a proposed class action lawsuit by patients and it also recently received an FDA warning letter. StemGenex is notable too in that it seemed to be considering taking some extreme action against perceived critic websites including potentially the

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NY stem cell clinic pushes back on lawsuit by AG

May 1, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 8 Comments

Unproven stem cell clinics are facing a variety of lawsuits these days including two prominent cases filed by the FDA. There are widespread patient suits against clinics as well. In April we saw a new kind of suit in the form of the NY State Attorney General (AG) Letitia James filing against a Manhattan clinic.

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E. coli & more: digging into unique new stem cell clinic lawsuit

December 6, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

E. coli is a type of bacteria that can cause diseases such as serious GI illness if it ends up in the wrong place like in your food. You can spend the night in the bathroom or end up in the hospital or more rarely a grave depending on the subtype of E. coli. Some

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USA v Regenerative Sciences Word Clouds are Illuminating

October 18, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 14 Comments

What can clouds tell us about a stem cell legal court case strategy such as USA v. Regenerative Sciences? It turns out, quite a lot. In about a week a Federal Appeals Court Case will begin to review the ruling in the USA v Regenerative Sciences that favored the FDA. This is arguably one of

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Korean stem cell clinic sued by patients in U.S. for fraud

July 5, 2012 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

For the first time to my knowledge, patients have sued a dubious stem cell clinic (RNL Bio) for fraud. As one stem cell expert has put it (see below), now there is “blood in the water”. RNL Bio of Korea has reportedly (hat tip to Leigh Turner) just been sued for fraud by patients related to stem

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