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Regenexx Research and Discovery Stem Cell Lab Receives it’s Dedication Plaque

New Regenexx Stem Cell Research Lab I blogged awhile back that we had officially opened a stem cell research facility that’s separate from our processing facility. While the cell processing facility that’s part of our medical practice is a clean room, the “Research and Discovery Laboratory” is focused 100% on researching new ways to help…read more

Problems in the World of Mass Manufactured Stem Cells: Is Pharma Gearing Up to Sell Cellular Junk?

Many years ago I noticed that one of the more prominent companies who was planning to mass manufacture adult stem cells for distribution like a drug made some interesting claims. They reported that they could get 10,000 doses of adult bone marrow stem cells out of a single donor. As someone who has as much…read more

Hitchhiking Stem Cells Injected into the Bone Marrow Find a Fracture Site and Promote Greater healing

Interesting paper out yesterday which illustrates how stem cells work. Stem cells have been known to “home” to an area of injury. In the case of bone marrow stem cells, since they live in an environment where they can easily hitch a ride to almost any part of the body (because the bone marrow space…read more

Fish Oil and Arthritis: Fish Oil Helps Older Women Walk Faster

How much evidence do we have that fish oil helps arthritis? Fish oil and the omega-3 fatty acids it contains (especially EPA) has been shown to have anti-inflammatory properties. I’ve blogged before on studies showing a reduction in rheumatoid arthritis risk for those taking the highest doses of fish oil and that there’s less knee arthritis among…read more

Tweeting from the DC Circuit

A week from today, if the government is still running, we will be squaring off with the FDA on whether cultured stem cells produced by a physician in his or her office for one unique patient are a drug or the practice of medicine. If you want a detailed account of this effort, I‘ve actually…read more

Krill Oil vs. Fish Oil for Arthritis and Health: A Review of the Science

Krill Oil vs. Fish Oil? I’m sure you’ve seen the advertisements from big supplement companies hyping Krill Oil. First, what is Krill Oil? Krill are little crustaceans that are at the bottom of the ocean food chain. They are a huge biomass that is approximately twice the size of all humans. Over half of that biomass…read more

Regenexx Publishes New Thumb Arthritis Study

Thumb arthritis is a big problem these days due to computer use and texting. We’ve been treating the thumb CMC joint with thumb arthritis stem cell procedures for many years with very good results. This is an exacting and precise injection of the patients own stem cells into this small hand joint. Last year an old…read more

Why I Avoid Drug Reps in My Office Like the Plague

There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t see them lurking near our medication samples closet, but I walk by at double step and haven’t talked to one in many years. They are drug reps, a fixture of modern medicine. The last one I spoke to was from the maker of Oxycontin and it wasn’t…read more