Ethical Considerations
Ethical considerations in regenerative medicine involve balancing scientific progress with moral principles to ensure patient safety and autonomy. These considerations encompass issues such as informed consent, privacy, and equitable access to treatments.
Subscribe to the BlogHe Blinded Me with Science! David Singer Strikes Again
I wrote about David Singer a while back. He’s a chiropractic practice consultant who has now reinvented himself as a stem cell expert. IMHO, he and others like him are helping to perpetuate stem cell fraud in hundreds of chiropractic clinics all over the country. Today we’ll dig into the fraudulent use of research to…read more
How Are Companies Getting Paid for Amnion? The Magic Trick Explained
If you’re following the Medicare reimbursement scam for amnion and umbilical cord products I’ve been covering, you may wonder how that scam began. While I knew some of this story prior to yesterday, I still hadn’t put all of the pieces of the fraud together to show a clear picture from start to finish. Now…read more
From Jail Cell to Stem Cell: The Next Con for the Ex-Con
Way back in February of 2019, a documentary film-maker appeared at the IOF conference wanting to interview people about regenerative medicine. After a year and a half and a worldwide pandemic, his movie is out and it’s a must watch. Let’s dig in. Doug Orchard The film-maker was Doug Orchard, who has an interesting story.…read more This Palingen Flow Sales Pitch Is Dangerous
Colleagues send me stuff all the time to review. Some of my favorite myth-buster activities come from reviewing aggressive sales emails sent to doctors to try to get them to purchase fake stem cell products. One such email just came across my desk that I’ll review today. The goal is to educate consumers and doctors…read more Should Sales Reps Vet the Products They Sell? Apex Biologix
Does a medical distributorship have a responsibility to vet the products they sell to physicians? Or is this an arm’s length relationship and buyer beware? Today, let’s view this controversy through the lens of some of the products pushed by a medical sales company in the regenerative medicine space called Apex Biologix. Let’s get started.…read more Direct Biologics, Exosomes, IRB Approval, and Paisleys?
What do Paisleys and illegal exosome products have in common? How about spine surgeons and exosomes? Let’s dig in. Paisleys? I recently got a press release that looks like it was put out by former Spine Surgeon, Ken Pettine. I’ve known Ken for years, but these past few years he’s suffered from an addiction problem…read more The FDA Loses its Cell Surgical Network Summary Judgment Motion: Why That Could be a Big Deal
A district court judge in the Cell Surgical Network case handed the stem cell network a legal victory late Monday. What does this mean? Does it support the idea that CSN will be able to use fat-based stem cell treatments to treat multiple incurable conditions? My take is that it’s a bigger deal than most…read more More Exosome Insanity: Genisent Labs and Extensive Medical Marketing
I get sent things all the time. This past week I was sent flyers on yet another”exosome” product made by Genisent Labs and this one came with actual treatment protocols. You just can’t make this stuff up. Let’s dig in! What are Exosomes? Exosomes are the latest buzz word in regenerative medicine. The concept is…read more 
