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Next, stem cells tech that regenerates your worn out cartilage. Damn, ads for doctors in the Seattle area advertising this, but I don't know if it's FDA approved. If it Fn works, me and millions of people will be lining up for this treatment if it doesn't require having a second mortgage on your home. I really don't want to replace my knee or hip joint but the way things are going, it may be in the cards and that is some serious surgery and rehab.‘It’s all gone’: CAR-T therapy forces autoimmune diseases into remission
Engineered immune cells, most commonly used to treat cancers, show their power against lupus and other immune disorders.
If this is a general cure for auto-immune conditions, it'll be huge. Just working against the 3 mentioned in the article is great.
No, those things are not FDA approved and operate in a poorly regulated space that takes advantage of people and puts patients in potential harm's way.
That is kind of what I figured, but they have ads on the radio every Fn day about their wonderful stem cell solutions. With supposed people who swear that fixed them.
Like I said, under-regulated space that charlatans are using to make a quick buck, at the expense of patient safety and trust.
I should know better. The FDA became a joke when they let the herbalist have their way with no empirical data.
That wasn't the FDA. That was Orin Hatch and his bill that required the FDA to only be reactive to supplements.
I don't think it makes the FDA a joke. Just that they can't reliably intercede on non-medicines thanks to laws Republicans championed. We should be putting the blame on the correct spots instead of throwing up our hands and blaming the system as a whole.
Might require more information than is reasonable for the layman. If the purpose of these agencies is to serve the people in a way that frees them up to do their thing, how does it help to have homeopathic shit on the shelf next to the eye drops? If I've gotta search for the 'snake oil' label on every box, hypothetical layman me might start asking what an FDA is even doing.
Yes, I think the FDA should be able to regulate those things, instead of those products just having labels like "The FDA has not evaluated this product's claims".
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