FDA Cracks Down on Some Stem Cell Clinics for Unproven Treatments

The FDA is still working to protect the U.S. population from medical chicanery while some of the federal government is wasting money, frittering away time, and trying to harm people. The new target for the agency is stem cell clinics and purveyors of"regenerative medicine" (see:FDA cracks down on stem-cell clinics, including one using smallpox vaccine in cancer patients). Below is an excerpt from the article:The Food and Drug Administration...announced a crackdown on stem-cell clinics offering unproven and potentially dangerous treatments, including an operation in California that the agency said was using the smallpox vaccine on seriously ill cancer patients. U.S. marshals on Friday raided San Diego-basedStemImmune and seized the vaccine, which the FDA said had been combined with fat-derived stem cells to create an unapproved product. ....[T]he agency..,[also] posted a warning letter issued...toU.S. Stem Cell of Sunrise, Fla., saying that recent FDA inspections of the clinic found that it was using stem cells derived from fat to purportedly treat illnesses including Parkinson's disease, ALS and heart disease.....[FDA Commissioner] Gottlieb...said that the emerging field of cell-based and so-called regenerative medicine holds “significant promise for transformative and potentially curative treatments” for serious illnesses but that “a small number of unscrupulous actors” is putting the field at risk. He said he is launching a new working group at t...
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