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Fact check: Lung Health Institute & cell therapies for lung disease

April 13, 2021 / By / 11 Comments
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What should we make of clinics like the Lung Health Institute? These clinics sell unproven stem cell or regenerative therapies for lung disease. Overall, I’m extremely skeptical. I don’t believe it’s worth the cost. There are also going to be potentially serious health risks. Lung disease is a broad category including COPD, emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis, …

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21 Stem Cell Research & Regenerative Medicine 2021 Predictions

February 1, 2021 / By / 6 Comments
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In any given field of biomedical science like stem cell research and regenerative medicine, it’s very useful if you can accurately predict the future. It seems, though, that predictions are far more difficult within the more exciting and rapidly-changing fields. The field of stem cells and regenerative medicine fits that bill. Past stem cell research …

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How much does stem cell therapy cost in 2022?

August 27, 2022 / By / 16 Comments
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One of the most common questions that patients have asked me over the last decade is, “how much does stem cell therapy cost?” They actually seem most often to want to know more specifically how much the treatments should cost. To try to authoritatively answer this we need data from the present and past along …

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What is PRP injection cost, risks, & possible benefits

December 15, 2022 / By / 16 Comments
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What is platelet-rich plasma or PRP injection cost and is it worth trying? The goal of today’s post is to fact-check PRP based on the scientific literature and educate readers including on PRP cost. What is in this article PRP is getting more popular  |   Is it worth it?   |   What exactly is PRP?  …

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Take polls: your stem cell treatment cost, PRP, exosomes

February 1, 2021 / By / 2 Comments
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I’m in the process of gathering data on how much people have been paying for their various stem cell and related treatments, but I’d like to hear directly from you as to what was your stem cell treatment cost. Also, how much did you pay for platelet rich plasma, also known as PRP? What about …

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How much is stem cell therapy? 2019 cost poll results

February 1, 2021 / By / 22 Comments
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After almost a decade blogging about stem cells from just about every angle, it’s interesting to consider trends in the types of questions I get asked such as this much more common one now as compared to 2010: How much is stem cell therapy? What does a patient pay on average for stem cells in …

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Regulators in Canada order dozens of stem cell clinics to stop

February 1, 2021 / By / 9 Comments
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North America is seeing a major bump in actions by regulators against unproven stem cell clinics with a big step up in Canada. The action has sparked quite a bit of discussion and debate. Dozens of Canadian clinics were just told by Health Canada to stop selling unproven stem cells. Some of these clinics sold …

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Fallout of big court loss for stem cell clinic whose leader tweeted conspiracy claim

February 1, 2021 / By / 3 Comments
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As I broke the news yesterday, the high-profile fat stem cell clinic firm U.S. Stem Cell (USRM) just lost a groundbreaking court case. Here is the FDA’s official reaction today to the court ruling. Also, since the ruling major media have been covering the court ruling. Here are some examples: From the Washington Post from …

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NY stem cell clinic pushes back on lawsuit by AG

February 1, 2021 / By / 8 Comments
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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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Sexual Medicine Society on Unproven Regenerative Therapies for Erectile Dysfunction

February 1, 2021 / By / 3 Comments
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There are many potential causes of erectile dysfunction or ED and a host of ideas about how to treat it. Some approaches to erectile dysfunction are evidence-based and even have been rigorously proven such as the drugs Viagra and Cialis, which increase blood flow to the penis. Depending on the causes of the dysfunction, these …

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