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Some Perspective on the California Medical Board’s “task force” on Stem Cell Clinics

Some Perspective on the California Medical Board’s “task force” on Stem Cell Clinics

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A few days ago, the big dog blogged that a San Diego TV station was reporting that the Medical Board of California (MBC) has announced its intention to form a task force to “investigate” private stem cell clinics, presumably following the Federation of State Medical Board’s (Federation) report on the subject. Here is the post: https://ipscell.com/2018/11/medical-board-of-california-task-force-to-investigate-stem-cell-clinics/ The intended or unintended implication is that all these clinics are about to be shut down by the MBC. But let’s take a breath….

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Private stem cell clinics should start worrying about some new regulatory players

Private stem cell clinics should start worrying about some new regulatory players

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Up until very recently, the FDA has basically been the sole regulatory threat to the private/for-profit stem cell clinics, via published guidance documents, site inspections, warning letters and the recent federal civil injunction cases against the two biggest stem cell operations. See my posts about the status of these cases at: http://rickjaffeesq.com/2018/09/26/update-on-fda-injunction-cases/ As an aside It’s no coincidence that the defendants in both of these injunction cases have many dozens of so-called “affiliate” stem cell clinics throughout the country. Both…

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