THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE FDA’S REGULATION OF AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TREATMENTS FOR ORTHOPEDIC USE
A little over a year ago, the FDA made public its final guidance documents in the stem cell field (HCT/P’s in FDA parlance). The documents were highly restrictive and all but eliminated the use of autologous stem cells outside of clinical trials. (I have written about this many, many times. Just scroll through some of my prior posts in the stem cell category on my home page). Apart from being wrong, my view has been that the FDA does not…