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Dendrion as a Canary in the Stem Cell Therapy Industry Coal Mine

The cell therapy industry has a mounting problem that everyone goes out of their way to ignore. Dendrion is a company selling a cellular product that, like a canary in the cell therapy coal mine, exemplifies this little issue. What’s the problem? Price. Manufacturing and approving traditional chemical drugs has a distinct advantage over cellular…read more

Bartolo Colon Stem Cell Network

About 2 years ago, a second national network with an orthopedic focus, StemMD burst on the stem cell scene. Calling themselves a “National Regenerative Medicine Practice” they featured Joe Purita, M.D. as their leader, highlighting the Bartolo Colon stem cell treatment. The StemMD network is one of several groups trying to emulate Regenexx. When you hit…read more

What a Bizarre and Jumbled Attack by Ray Dirks, Pluristem Investor!

I woke up this morning to find a rather bizarre attack ad by a stock market writer. The first reason this is bizarre is that we’re not publicly traded nor do we ever hope to be. I guess you know you’re successfully rattling the cages of traditional orthopedic medicine when you get attacked for no…read more

Texting Thumb Treatments: A Tale of Two Hands…

Texting thumb is a real epidemic. Using our thumbs to text or type can wear out an important thumb joint, leading to chronic pain at the base of that digit. Texting thumb treatments are regrettably pretty archaic. This is a story of two women who beat the disease with only an injection of their stem…read more

Is Vitamin D Arthritis Pain Relief for Real? Maybe…

If you have arthritis, should you take or ditch Vitamin D? Is vitamin d arthritis pain relief for real, or are you wasting your money? Right now there are 241 scientific papers on the topic listed in the US National Library of Medicine. Regrettably, the research is all over the map on this one, so…read more

Knee Arthritis Diet? An Obscure Hormone May Be Trashing Your Knees

Is there a knee arthritis diet or is the issue more complex? We’d all accept at face value that a heavier person has more wear and tear on their joints. This is true, but what most people don’t realize is that a hormone with a funny name (Leptin) may be equally responsible for eating up…read more

The Top 5 Most Common Shoulder Problems

Over any 10 year period, about 15% of us will see a doctor for shoulder pain and that number climbs as we get older. While you might think that only one or two things can cause pain in the shoulder, there are actually quite a few. These most common shoulder problems include the various structures…read more

Fat Stem Cell Arthritis Treatments: Are All Fat Stem Cells Equal?

There are an ever increasing supply of physicians who have taken a weekend course to deliver fat stem cell arthritis treatments. What should patients know? All stem cells are created equal, right? Wrong. Let me explain. For many patients, the term “stem cell” means a single type of cell that can help treat disease. However,…read more