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Former FDA Commissioner on our “Your Cells=Drugs” Case

Our “your cells=drugs” case has garned much attention this past few months. Forbes stated that it would have “monumental impact” for determining the future of your healthcare. The Wall Street Journal just posted an op-ed by former FDA Commissioner, the Honorable Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D. on FDA reform. In the Op-ed entitled, Andrew von Eschenbach: Toward a 21st-Century FDA, Dr. von…read more

Texas Medical Board puts Rules around Stem Cell Use

As I have blogged before, Texas is shaping up to be a showdown over physician innovation with stem cells. In the Texas Medical Board stem cells ruling the Texas Medical Board (TMB) voted 11-4 yesterday to pass a new rule (Chapter 198) that allows physicians to use stem cells that are not FDA approved under the…read more

More Cells=Drugs Updates

More updates on Cells=Drugs – Regenexx.  The journal Translational Medicine just published an editorial entitled: Does the FDA have regulatory authority over adult autologous stem cell therapies? 21 CFR 1271 and the emperor’s new clothes. The full paper is here. Here’s the abstract: ABSTRACT: FDA has recently asserted that many autologous cell therapies once considered the practice of…read more

Johns Hopkins jumps into the Arthroscopy Debate

John Hopkins jumps into the Arthroscopy Debate…  As you know from reading this blog, there is little evidence that arthroscopic knee surgery to “repair” a meniscus or “clean up” cartilage works. The Johns Hopkins medical newsletter just jumped into the fray by reminding everyone of several studies including a Cochrane Review that shows that knee…read more

World’s First Regenerative Medicine injection under Direct Visualization with Needle Arthroscope

First Arthroscopic Regenerative Medicine Injection…  We are proud to announce what we understand to be the world’s first injection of regenerative therapies into a knee ACL under direct visualization through a needle arthroscope. This marks another significant step in offering our patients knee acl surgery alternatives. Also, in keeping with our orthopedics 2.0 philosophy, we continue to push…read more

Platelet Rich Plasma-Can you get a Better Result through Higher Platelet Concentration?

I’ve blogged before on the problems with bedside machine made PRP-namely too much blood contamination. Another issue is platelet concentration. Some PRP machine makers tout their ability to get platelet concentrations as high as 11X over baseline, while others say that too many platelets that can cause cells to be inhibited. Since the goal of…read more

Update on Chondrolysis Patient and Stem cells

I blogged on KH about 2 months ago. He’s a 38 year old male with the great misfortune of having the cartilage in his shoulder joint dissolved by a pain pump during a labral repair surgery. The challenge was given the damage done, to put together a shoulder chondrolysis treatment to address the individual components…read more

Kneecap Cartilage Problems May Originate In the Hip

Do you have Kneecap cartilage problems? It’s a very common complaint, but one for which there are few good solutions offered by traditional Orthopedics — mostly because it’s seen as an individual problem, rather than signaling a problem within a larger system. How is Patellofemoral Syndrome Treated in Orthopedics? Patellofemoral Syndrome is when the kneecap doesn’t…read more