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Groundbreaking defeat for US Stem Cell, fat stem cell clinic industry in federal court

June 3, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 26 Comments

In a precedent-setting decision, a federal court has ruled for the FDA against a key stem cell clinic firm called U.S. Stem Cell, Inc. The court granted summary judgment for the FDA in its suit seeking a permanent injunction against the Florida stem cell clinic firm. While the company is likely going to appeal, this is […]

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My take as a biologist on US Stem Cell “natural” claim in federal court case endgame

April 16, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 12 Comments

It’s been less than a year since the FDA sued for a permanent injunction against a major stem cell clinic firm in Florida, but there has been much back and forth in court filings in the lawsuit between them and the firm, US Stem Cell. Now the case is with the judge. My prediction remains

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Why NY AG suit against Manhattan stem cell clinic is such a big deal

April 7, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 7 Comments

The New York State Attorney General (AG) filed suit this week against a Manhattan stem cell clinic. It’s a landmark case. The defendants are Image Plastic Surgery, LLC, Park Avenue Stem Cell, and Joel B. Singer, M.D. The clinic markets adipose stem cell injections for a variety of health conditions. Park Avenue Stem had belonged

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Clinic biz US Stem (USRM) may be kaput in matter of weeks or months

March 10, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 7 Comments

In a surprising development, the United States government (FDA and DOJ) and the stem cell clinic firm, US Stem Cell (USRM), Inc., that it has sued seeking a permanent injunction, have agreed on something! According to new court records on Pacer (see screenshot), they have both given up on mediation in the federal lawsuit. Further,

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Sales of zombie stem cells continue to mushroom

January 23, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 15 Comments

The birth-related stem cell clinic industry is a serious problem for patients, the stem cell field, and the FDA as the clinics sell more and more of what I think of as “zombie” injections. Zombie stem cells One of the biggest changes in the last 2 years in the unproven stem cell clinic arena was

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Stemgenex clinic mulled campaign against critic websites including CIRM per court docs

September 6, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 8 Comments

New court documents indicate that the stem cell clinic Stemgenex was contemplating paying nearly $20K to try to get certain webpages that were critical of the company taken down. The documents include internal company emails that are part of the lawsuit against the firm. They indicate that Stemgenex was mulling over the idea of hiring a “reputation management” company,

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Attorney Jaffe, fan of less oversight, still clobbers Florida stem cell clinic firm

August 5, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Attorney Richard Jaffe, who has been an advocate for clinics to have the right to sell and patient to buy unproven therapies such as the stem cells sold by clinics and unproven cancer therapies, just did a kind of shocking u-turn on a specific point. Jaffe and I have very different philosophical views of the

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As 2 FDA stem cell clinic suits slowly unfold, more action needed now

August 1, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 8 Comments

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For me there was a sense of “finally” when just under 3 months ago the FDA filed suits via the DOJ against 2 stem cell clinic firms, U.S. Stem Cell (and its affiliate U.S. Stem Cell Clinic, collectively referred to here as USRM) and California Stem Cell Treatment Center/Cell Surgical Network (collectively referred to here as

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A real FDA blacklist: what is it, who’s on it, & should some stem cell clinics be?

June 25, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

I didn’t know until recently that the FDA has a blacklist, which is called the “FDA Debarment List”. You can check it out here. Should one or more particularly egregious unproven stem cell clinic operators should be on the list given their risk-taking with patients in the name of profit? There aren’t any on there

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DOJ cites The Niche blog in suit vs. stem cell clinic firm: what’s scoop?

May 11, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 12 Comments

It was interesting to see that this blog The Niche was cited in the lawsuit filing by the DOJ in the U.S.A. vs. California Stem Cell Treatment Center, Cell Surgical Network (CSN), et al. case. Yeah, that lawsuit. This suit is part of the DOJ action yesterday that along with the other suit against US Stem Cell

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