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New lawsuit includes big stem cell clinic chain, Cell Surgical Network

April 19, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 7 Comments

Does a new lawsuit including Cell Surgical Network and its leadership as defendants pose a broad test to this entire chain of stem cell clinics, which may be the largest such affiliated clinic group in the U.S. and potentially even in the world? Will lawsuits substantially impact stem cell clinics? Lawsuits against unproven, for-profit stem cell […]

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Civil Lawsuits as a Public Health Strategy: Can Cases Brought by Injured Plaintiffs have a Broader Effect?

March 12, 2018 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

By Claire Horner In 2016, a law firm in California began looking for individuals who were “misled or harmed by stem cell treatment” in the southern California area (which was discussed on this blog here). While there had been other lawsuits filed by plaintiffs against individual clinics, this firm was looking to take a different

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New lawsuit against U.S. Stem Cell also alleges blindness

December 21, 2017 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

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A new stem cell clinic lawsuit has popped up and this one, like some others, relates to a patient alleging vision loss due to a non-FDA approved stem cell offering and involves U.S. Stem Cell, Inc. (formerly called Bioheart). American stem cell clinics market direct-to-consumer stem cell offerings for a whole medical dictionary’s worth of

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Lawsuit against stem cell clinic StemGenex expands to 5 patients

August 15, 2017 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 19 Comments

The stem cell clinic StemGenex was sued almost a year ago related to allegations about their marketing claims. This proposed class action suit, Moorer v. StemGenex, now includes five named patients involved as one can see from the new fourth amended complaint court document. The five total named patients involved in the suit include four new

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Stem cell clinic-related biz threatens researcher with lawsuit, wants retraction

July 25, 2017 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 18 Comments

University of Minnesota bioethicist Leigh Turner has been threatened with a lawsuit by a stem cell clinic-related business. Lawsuit threats in this arena come up every so often and as much as they are unpleasant realities, they can also reveal some important aspects of the stem cell arena. Ars Technica reported yesterday that Leigh’s recent paper

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Update on patients lawsuit against stem cell clinic, Stemgenex

January 23, 2017 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 6 Comments

The website Law360 has an interesting update on the proposed class action lawsuit against the San Diego stem cell clinic Stemgenex. Note that it seems you can read the full Law360 article without a subscription if you open the site in Chrome as your web browser. See more background on Stemgenex and on this case

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Stem cell clinic lawsuits proliferate with latest against Stemgenex

December 7, 2016 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 8 Comments

There is a growing trend of apparently unhappy patients suing stem cell clinics, which have faced more lawsuits recently and some of these cases are proposed class action suits that could have much broader impact. The latest case is against San Diego-based Stemgenex, a clinic that has claimed amongst other things that it can treat numerous diverse afflictions and that

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2nd lawsuit alleging a U.S. stem cell clinic caused blindness

November 28, 2016 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

Concerns over stem cell clinics allegedly causing blindness or other vision problems have been increasing in 2016. If this is in fact happening, the extra sad part of this is that some clinics have claimed that they are doing the opposite: improving vision in patients. What are the concerns? Earlier this year a publicly-traded stem

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Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Clinic Lung Institute

August 29, 2016 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 40 Comments

A stem cell/regenerative clinic firm called the Lung Institute is facing a filing of a proposed class action suit. Update: Note that this firm also goes by the name the Lung Health Institute and now as of 2019-2020 it does not appear to offer stem cells anymore, perhaps focusing on PRP. You might also find

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Possible class action lawsuit against stem cell clinics

August 18, 2016 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 10 Comments

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I often am asked if there are ongoing or possible upcoming lawsuits against stem cell clinics. Doing periodic searches such as on Google is one way to learn more about whether there are stem cell legal cases out there. Recently I did such searches for a variety of terms including “stem cell lawsuit” and “stem

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