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Right To Try law has a big loophole that's an opening for bad actors

Right To Try law has a big loophole that’s an opening for bad actors

There appears to be a big, risky loophole in the relatively new national Right To Try law.

Some folks apparently anticipated this problem long ago, but I think most of us weren’t aware of it.

What’s the deal?

It seems to be a case of what I would call piggybacking that could be a big opening for what the FDA has labelled “bad actors” including certain unproven stem cell clinics.

Keep in mind that…

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News bites: CIRM, anti-MSCs, & human eggs from stem cells

News bites: CIRM, anti-MSCs, & human eggs from stem cells

Stem cells are always in the news so what’s up in the last week or two?

Human eggs from stem cells stained pink; Saitou Lab CIRM News

The dialogue over CIRM’s future is picking up a bit of steam. The San Francisco Chronicle did an in-depth piece on CIRM some weeks back and then opined that they didn’t feel supportive of another round of funding. I disagree. I think CIRM is a good future…

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Deconstructing informercial-like Joe Rogan stem cell video with Mel Gibson

Deconstructing informercial-like Joe Rogan stem cell video with Mel Gibson

What do you get when celebrity podcaster Joe Rogan talks about stem cells? There can be big impact one way or another.

Patients can be strongly influenced by what they see on social media and YouTube videos pack a strong punch so maybe once every few years I look on YouTube to see what’s up there for stem cells as I did in 2015. Now, in July 2018 the top video I see for such a search is one in…

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DOJ cites The Niche blog in suit vs. stem cell clinic firm: what's scoop?

DOJ cites The Niche blog in suit vs. stem cell clinic firm: what’s scoop?

It was interesting to see that this blog The Niche was cited in the lawsuit filing by the DOJ in the U.S.A. vs. California Stem Cell Treatment Center, Cell Surgical Network (CSN), et al. case.

Yeah, that lawsuit. This suit is part of the DOJ action yesterday that along with the other suit against US Stem Cell seeks permanent injunctions against these firms related to their use of stem cells.

Here…

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Grading my twenty 2017 stem cell predictions

Each year I make a list of predictions for the year to come for the stem cell and regenerative medicine field.

Then about a year later I grade myself on how I did as that year winds down. Here’s how I did in 2016.

For 2017, late in 2016 I made 20 stem cell predictions. Let’s now see how I did.

I was wrong on 6 out of the 20 predictions and mostly right on the restwith some others in the middle…

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Predatory stem cell clinics are winning the war; what can we do?

Predatory stem cell clinics are winning the war; what can we do?

For years I have been working to educate the community about the predatory stem cell clinics out there. These clinics prey on vulnerable patients and their families. The clinics use hope as a marketing tool.

A weapon.

As the number of such clinics has mushroomed in the US and elsewhere the risk to both patients and to the larger stem cell community proportionately rises too. We are in a situation…

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