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Sexual Medicine Society on Unproven Regenerative Therapies for Erectile Dysfunction

April 10, 2019 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 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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‘So you don’t get eyeball in your hand’: Swedish Medical Center ‘infomercial’

February 4, 2019 March 22, 2024 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 16 Comments

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Swedish Medical Center in Seattle is now marketing regenerative medicine therapies including some things that in my view are not really scientifically proven to work including via an infomercial. This is part of a bigger trend where more legit medical centers have begun selling regenerative medicine “treatments” that are still being developed. Sometimes they even …

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Red flag for Joint Commission for its gold seal approval to former stem cell clinic firm

January 9, 2019 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 7 Comments

The Joint Commission apparently has given some kind of seal of approval to the unproven stem cell clinic-related firm, the Lung Institute, or as it is now often called the Lung Health Institute. For me this raises concerns about the Joint Commission itself or at least its ambulatory care accreditation program through which Lung Health …

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On stem cells for lungs the-profit clinic offerings don’t make much sense

December 17, 2018 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 6 Comments

What’s the deal with lung stem cells and stem cells for lungs? For a long time researchers found that stem cells were elusive in adult lungs. There was debate about whether they even existed, but it now seems fairly established that there are some of the little guys in there. Just because one of the …

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Cell on wheels: ‘stem-cell-mobile’ delivers unproven therapies

October 3, 2018 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 11 Comments

There’s the batmobile for Batman, right, but what about a stem-cell-mobile? Every so often someone sends me some wild new stem cell clinic thing that they’ve seen that is both real and almost unbelievable at the same time. The latest is a mobile stem cell “clinic” business called RegenMed of Florida, which is what I’m …

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Stem-ish cells: what’s the real thing?

June 17, 2018 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

Ain’t nothing like the real thing…right? No, by the ‘real thing’ I’m not talking about Coke versus Pepsi or Coke versus Diet Coke, but rather stem cells. (On a side note there’s still some people who apparently believe the stem cell myth that there are stem cells in Pepsi). I get a regular stream of …

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Up your nose? OMG Facebook video moments from clinic sued by DOJ

May 14, 2018 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how about a Facebook video from a stem cell clinic? In my view it sure tells a story with some unusual twists. I wrote last week about this Facebook video by Kristin Comella, the leader of the publicly-traded stem cell clinic firm US Stem Cell, Inc. (USRM). As …

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Clinic versus clinic? Internecine conflicts among direct-to-consumer stem cell firms

February 6, 2018 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 8 Comments

Stem cell clinics marketing non-FDA approved therapies directly to consumers have been in various tense situations at times with the FDA or academics over the years, but more recently these stem cell clinic-related firms also appear in conflict with each other sometimes. The most notable recent example of conflict involves Dr. Christopher Centeno of Regenexx …

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Stem cell treatment cost: you often don’t get what you pay for

October 28, 2017 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 12 Comments

How much does a stem cell treatment cost? $5,000 is a nice round number that is probably close to the mark on average, but the price varies a great deal and depends on many factors. Factors that influence perceived average price include what one actually sees as being under that umbrella term “stem cell treatment.” Does …

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Fake stem cell news

January 16, 2017 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

One of my Top 20 Predictions for Stem Cells for 2017 was that we’d see more instances of fake stem cell news. One type of stem cell fake news consists of promotional press releases that seek to recruit paying customers for unproven stem cell “treatments” based on made up or exaggerated claims about safety and …

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