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The year in review and some predictions about next year/ Part One: Stem Cells

The year in review and some predictions about next year/ Part One: Stem Cells

It’s time to look back at what happened this year, and make some predictions about next year. Part One will focus on stem cells. We started 2017 awaiting the FDA’s final guidance documents on HCT/P’s (“stem cells”). In late August, the FDA foreshadowed the guidance documents by issuing warning letters to two of most high profile (or infamous) stem cell clinics in the country. Both clinics were warned that their use of HCT/P’s were in violation of the FDA trifecta…

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California enacts a new stem cell law, but it won’t do or change anything

California enacts a new stem cell law, but it won’t do or change anything

On Monday, October 2, 2017, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law SB 512, which requires what I call the practice of medicine stem cell clinics to notify their patients that the use of stem cells by the clinic is not FDA approved. And that’s it! Here is the link to the law: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB512 The law should be a welcome relief to the hundred plus California clinics that provide stem cell treatments to patients, because it does not affect their businesses…

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