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‘I’d need a drink’: WaPo deep dive on clinic firm Lung Health Institute

December 7, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

Washington Post reporters William Wan and Laurie McGinley have a new piece on the unproven regenerative clinic firm the Lung Health Institute. This article has a number of surprises and new insights. Previously the Lung Health Institute was called just the Lung Institute. It was recently acquired by the publicly-traded company H-CYTE, stock symbol HCYT. In the […]

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How much is stem cell therapy? 2019 cost poll results

October 13, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 22 Comments

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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Report from Medical Board of California meeting on stem cell clinics

September 18, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 17 Comments

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This afternoon I attended and gave public comment at the Medical Board of California stem cell task force meeting on unproven stem cell clinics. There were about 40 people attending. In part this meeting is a consequence of the national governing organization of state medical boards, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) having worked

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Regulators in Canada order dozens of stem cell clinics to stop

July 15, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 9 Comments

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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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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Sexual Medicine Society on Unproven Regenerative Therapies for Erectile Dysfunction

April 10, 2019 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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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