The US Food and Drug Administration won a major legal victory in its ongoing effort to crack down on clinics marketing bogus and potentially hazardous stem cell products
On Monday, a federal judge in Miami granted the FDA an injunction to prevent the Florida-based US Stem Cell Clinic from offering treatments designed to create stem cells from body fat and administering them intravenously or directly into the spinal cords of patients to treat Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other serious conditions.
— Scott Gottlieb, MD June 3, 2019 Former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb called the decision"a critical precedent" and a step toward "efficient, effective, safe oversight of cell based regenerative medicine"Stem cells are sometimes called the body's master cells, as they develop into blood, brain, bones and organs, and have the potential to repair, restore, replace and regenerate cells.
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