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Texas Medical Board to patients needing stem cells (and the Texas legislature): Drop Dead!

Texas Medical Board to patients needing stem cells (and the Texas legislature): Drop Dead!

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Last year, the Texas legislature passed landmark stem cell legislation (HB 810). The law didn’t open the floodgates for every physician who wanted to inject patients with stem cells. However, it did allow patients to access their own stem cells (as well as other people’s stem cells), under controlled circumstances, namely the procedure had to be performed in a high level facility (an ambulatory surgical center or hospital), and it required university type IRB (institutional Review Board) approval. Here is…

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First 2018 Stem Cell Update

First 2018 Stem Cell Update

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We’re now beginning the second month of 2018, and we are a few months past the FDA’s issuance of the final stem cell guidance documents which are intended to dramatically limit the availability of stem cell treatments outside of FDA approved clinical trials. See my prior post at: http://wp.me/p7pwQD-bB So what’s going on so far in 2018? FDA Inspections? Rumor has it that there already have been several facility inspections this year. What I can say is that it’s more…

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Landmark Texas Stem Cell Legislation Gets through the Texas Legislature!

Landmark Texas Stem Cell Legislation Gets through the Texas Legislature!

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Over the Memorial Day weekend, the Texas Legislature passed amended HB 810, which allows access to autologous (yours) and allogenic (not your) stem cells. It is landmark legislation in that it is the first state law allowing access to stem cell treatments which are not FDA approved, and which do not fit within the narrow types of autologous stem cell treatments permissible under federal law. Here is the amended bill awaiting the Governor’s signature. (The Governor has previously tweeted that…

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Texas stem cell legislative battle goes down to the wire, but alas, it’s less the meets the eye

Texas stem cell legislative battle goes down to the wire, but alas, it’s less the meets the eye

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Under current law, it is illegal for patients to have their own stems cells removed, cultured/expanded and reinjected. That’s too bad because there are plenty of instances where this treatment seems to be helping patients with incurable chronic diseases such as MS. Patients who want this type of treatment have to go abroad, usually either Mexico or Panama. That’s quite burdensome for some, given their medical problems. Texas MS Patients to the Rescue, (maybe) During the current Texas legislative session,…

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