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Good-bye from Grand Cayman!

Above is a compilation of sunsets from our back porch these past two weeks. Today marks my last day on “island time” at our licensed advanced stem cell site. It’s been a great clinic, seeing many complex patients who can benefit from stem cells that have been culture expanded and grown to higher numbers. I’ll…read more

Yet Another Reason Low Back Fusion Is Mostly a Dumb Idea

While I have seen a few patients in my career who really, desperately needed a low back fusion, they have been very few and very far between. Yet this type of surgery, where the low back bones are fused together with surgically implanted hardware, has become increasingly commonplace. While a whole slew of complications for…read more

Turns Out Your Lungs Are a Bioreactor for Your Cells?

It never ceases to amaze me that in 2017 we are still discovering significant things about the body. Last week a paper was published that discovered the lungs were acting as a living Petri dish for the cells that make your platelets. Before this discovery, doctors and scientists assumed that the cells that made your platelets lived…read more

Academia Dissing Stem Cell Clinics on One Side of Campus and Running Them on the Other Side

This blog post is a continued post in my series about the stem cell blinding tragedy reported last week. Today I’d like to focus on how academic medical centers are both the source of a lot of criticism of stem cell clinics and responsible for running cash-pay stem cell clinics themselves. As my mama used to say,…read more

Can the Body Repair Its Own Pancreas?

Can the body repair its own pancreas? While the imagery that comes to mind might seem like something out of a science-fiction novel, the truth is that real science is outsmarting the fiction here. All indicators, according to a recent study, are that if we set up the right environment, the body can likely repair…read more

Three Patients Blinded by Stem Cells?

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know I’ve frequently lamented that the wild west of stem cells has grown out of control. Every day, we see a new doctor somewhere offering this or that treatment for just about every disease described by mankind. Most of it makes little sense. For someone who has been involved in treating orthopedic patients with stem cells for…read more

Blogging from the Caymans Again…

It’s spring, and again I’m down at our licensed advanced-practice site in Grand Cayman. As you can see above, it’s beautiful down here. That was last night at sunset from the back porch. Same Day vs. Cultured Stem Cells The U.S. only allows stem cells to be isolated and used in the same surgical procedure in…read more

1 in 5 Become Addicted with Just a 10-Day Opioid Script

Any medical provider who performs procedures writes a narcotic script for postoperative pain. I routinely write these scripts. However, now a new study suggests that this may not be a smart idea as one in five patients can get addicted to narcotics! What Is an Opioid? Opioids are narcotics that help relieve pain. These drugs are quite…read more