Cells from a woman's belly fat were injected into her eyes. Within months, she was permanently blind

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F.D.A. Cracks Down on ‘Unscrupulous’ Stem Cell Clinics

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration announced a crackdown on dangerous stem cell clinics on Monday, while at the same time pledging to ease the path to approval for companies and doctors with legitimate treatments in the growing field.

The agency reported actions against two large stem cell clinics and a biotech company, saying that it was critical to shut down “unscrupulous actors” in regenerative medicine, a broad umbrella that includes stem cell and gene therapies and immunotherapies.

“The F.D.A. will not allow deceitful actors to take advantage of vulnerable patients by purporting to have treatments or cures for serious diseases without any proof that they actually work,” said Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the F.D.A. commissioner.

Stem cells, which can be extracted from bone marrow, blood or fat, can develop into many different types of cells, and are thought to have the potential to repair or replace tissue damaged by disease, injury or aging. But so far, the F.D.A. has approved only a few stem-cell products.

The companies that the F.D.A. cited have been performing liposuction to remove belly fat from patients, extracting stem cells and then injecting those cells back into the patients to treat various ailments.

...https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/health/fda-stem-cell.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

[still_one]

1. This was reported several months ago in the NEJM. People need to be wary of treatments that

haven't gone through the FDA

[Docreed2003]

2. This is a disgusting bastardization of real stem cell research

These "physicians" are using patients as test animals all for the almighty dollar the patients are willing to pay for a promised cure for their ailments. Sickening...

[BigmanPigman]

3. Hasn't 45 destroyed the FDA yet or is that next on his hit list?

[Lotusflower70]

4. Wait what?

Cells from belly fat into her eyes? Wth?

[procon]

5. Its greed. Profits over people.

Martin Shkreli, the poster boy for greed, showed us that some people will stop at nothing to make money. There are millions of unscrupulous con men just like him out there, bamboozling people every day.

[Archae]

6. "60 Minutes" did a segment on this, couple years ago.

Showed these "doctors" who go to places like the Dominican Republic to set up their "miracle cure stem cell" clinics.