A Los Angeles federal judge has rejected a government motion that could have shut down a network of clinics offering customers allegedly unauthorized stem cell treatments. The ruling by Judge Jesus G. Bernal potentially deals a setback for the Food and Drug Administration’s campaign against treatments using stem cell preparations that the FDA has not approved. FDA, 2018The defendants countered that their treatments involved substances that were exempt from FDA oversight, in part because they came from the patients’ own bodies. “Unfortunately, this all leaves the door potentially still open for hundreds of clinics to sell the unproven fat stem cell product at the heart of this case,” UC Davis biologist Paul Knoepfler wrote on his blog. Stem Cell Clinic.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 28, 2020 21:29 UTC