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Dissecting Liveyon FDA inspection report & troubled perinatal stem cell industry

Dissecting Liveyon FDA inspection report & troubled perinatal stem cell industry

The perinatal stem cell clinic supplier Liveyon has had many issues recently including an FDA inspection that  in my view didn’t go well and which I’ll return to in a minute. First, some background on the company and this troubled industry.

Liveyon website screenshot.

E. coli and other pathogens ended up in some of the Liveyon product somehow prior to injections of it into patients at clinics.…

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Sales of 'zombie', birth-related 'stem cells' continue to mushroom

Sales of ‘zombie’, birth-related ‘stem cells’ continue to mushroom

The birth-related stem cell clinic industry is a serious problem for patients, the stem cell field, and the FDA as the clinics sells more and more of what I think of as “zombie” injections.

One of the biggest changes in the last 2 years in the unproven stem cell clinic arena was predicted by the data that Leigh Turner and I published in one of our collaborative papersin which we saw an upward…

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101-year old lady cured? Groundbreaking FTC Action on Stem Cell Clinic Marketing

101-year old lady cured? Groundbreaking FTC Action on Stem Cell Clinic Marketing

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took some strong action against specific stem cell clinics today and the physician behind them. I see this as really good news and it’s something I’ve been pushing for years. The clinics in question in part marketed unproven stem cells for sick kids. Frankly, iffy for-profit stem cell “treatments” for kids is something that especially pisses me off as it’s even…

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FDA recalls Liveyon stem cell product: blow to big clinic supplier?

FDA recalls Liveyon stem cell product: blow to big clinic supplier?

The FDA has issued a recall of the main stem cell product of a California firm called Liveyon that is linked to unproven stem cell clinics. The recall seems to have been due to “adverse reactions.”

An emerging big player in the birth-related stem cell clinic area?

I’ve been hearing the name Liveyon pop up more often in the unproven stem cell clinic industry recently. More specifically, they seem…

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Poll: How many stem cell treatments have you had?

Poll: How many stem cell treatments have you had?

The cost of stem cell treatments is a big deal for many reasons including the burden it puts on patients, who often then turn to friends, family and even the Internet to try to obtain the money needed to pay the for-profit clinic.

A reasonable question to ask is how the cost of a stem cell treatment compares to the costs of more standard of care options. Most often clinic stem cell offerings are…

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Stem(ish) cells: what's the real thing?

Stem(ish) cells: what’s the real thing?

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 emails from patients and sometimes phone calls asking questions about stem cells and especially…

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Amniotic derived stem cell tends to be the game changer  for birth defects

Amniotic derived stem cells are a combination of stem cells that can be harvested from the amniotic fluid and amniotic membrane as the maternity phase ends with the delivery. Amniotic fluid protects the fetus during its development phase in the uterus that is covered by the amniotic membrane. As soon as the  baby is delivered the amniotic fluid is stored along with the amniotic membrane. The collection of the fluid brings no danger to the child

Stem cells that are obtained from the amniotic fluid and amniotic membrane, also from the bone marrow are used in medicine for a wide range of reasons

·         To help enhance proteins and reduce the inflammatory effect in conditions that lead to pain, tissue damage and immobility

·         Separates and develop into tissues of the body, such as skin, muscles, cartilage, bone, nerve and heart and kidney tissues to heal damaged areas caused by disease and injuries

Favors and Disfavors of the amniotic derived stem cells

Amniotic stem cell pros and cons required to be considered at in order to determine whether using such stem cells have advantages that outnumber any risk with its therapy

Pros

·         The amniotic fluid is abundant in mesenchymal stem cells that are present around the fetus

·         The mesenchymal stem cells, also called the MSCs have a higher transformable ability than the ones that are found from the bone marrow, which interprets that several new tissue cells can be obtained from the amniotic fluid

·         These stem cells have a higher ability and flexibility in comparison to adult stem cells, causing them to multiply in healthier cells required for tissue repair

·         Amniotic stem cells can be taken advantage to regenerate birth defects as well as healing a premature amniotic membrane rupture during pregnancy

·         There is no risk of the body rejecting the stem cells

·         The amniotic derived stem cells are rich in hyaluronic acid that assist in cartilage flexibility around the joints

Cons

The Amniotic fluid contains a restricted amount of embryonic stem cells

Efficacy

The recent research conducted at The Chicago Stem Cell Therapy center Dr. Zaki Anwar, MD Anesthesiologists and his fellow Physicians have come up with the following results;

Stem cell therapy has been potentially taken advantage for managing major orthopedic injuries such as bone, joint injuries, ligaments and tendon injuries, osteoarthritis and cartilage defects

Stem cell therapy has been used in bone tissue engineering and can be used in combination with other treatments to provide better outcomes