Every day at CIRM we get emails and calls from people looking for a stem cell clinical trial to help them. Some have arthritis in the knee or hip and want to avoid surgery. Some have a child with autism and want something that will ease the symptoms. Some have cancer and conventional therapies no … Continue reading Facebook Live: Ask the Stem Cell Team About Clinical Trials
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Mending Stem Cells: The Past, Present and Future of Regenerative Medicine
To Mend: (verb used with object) to make (something broken, worn, torn or otherwise damaged) whole, sound or usable by repairing. It’s remarkable to believe, but today doctors literally have the tools to repair damaged cells. These tools are being used to treat people with diseases that were once incurable. The field of regenerative medicine has made tremendous … Continue reading Mending Stem Cells: The Past, Present and Future of Regenerative Medicine
Stories that caught our eye: Is a Texas law opening up access to stem cell treatments working? Another CIRM-funded company gets good news from the FDA.
In 2017 Texas passed a sweeping new law, HB 810, which allowed medical clinics to provide “investigational stem cell treatments to patients with certain severe chronic diseases or terminal illnesses.” Those in favor of the law argued that patients battling life-threatening or life-changing diseases should have the right to try stem cell therapies that were … Continue reading Stories that caught our eye: Is a Texas law opening up access to stem cell treatments working? Another CIRM-funded company gets good news from the FDA.
Why Stem Cell Advocates Texans for Cures say “Right to Try” Legislation Should be Fought
This week in Washington DC a delegation from the stem cell advocacy group Texans for Cures is meeting with members of Congress from both parties. The focus of the meetings are three bills promoting “Right to Try” legislation. Supporters of the bills say they will empower patients battling terminal illness. Texans for Cures say, … Continue reading Why Stem Cell Advocates Texans for Cures say “Right to Try” Legislation Should be Fought
Texas tries to go it alone in offering unproven stem cell therapies to patients
One of the most hotly debated topics in stem cell research is whether patients should be able to have easier access to unproven therapies using their own stem cells, at their own risk, and their own cost. It’s a debate that is dividing patients and physicians, researchers and lawmakers. In California, a bill working its … Continue reading Texas tries to go it alone in offering unproven stem cell therapies to patients
A ‘Call to Action’ for change at the FDA
It’s bad enough to have to battle a debilitating and ultimately deadly disease like Huntington’s disease (HD). But it becomes doubly difficult and frustrating when you feel that the best efforts to develop a therapy for HD are running into a brick wall. That’s how patients and patient advocates working on HD feel as they … Continue reading A ‘Call to Action’ for change at the FDA
‘Right To Try’ laws called ‘Right To Beg’ by Stem Cell Advocates
In recent years, ‘Right to Try’ laws have spread rapidly across the US, getting approved in 32 states, with at least three more states trying to pass their own versions. The organization behind the laws says they serve a simple purpose: ‘Right To Try’ allows terminally ill Americans to try medicines that have passed Phase … Continue reading ‘Right To Try’ laws called ‘Right To Beg’ by Stem Cell Advocates
Why “Right to Try” laws are more feel good than do good
L to R: Don Gibbons, CIRM; Jeanne Loring; Beth Roxland; Aaron Levine In the last few years some 24 states have approved so-called “Right to Try” laws. These are intended to give terminally ill patients faster and easier access to experimental therapies. But a panel of experts at the World Stem Cell Summit in Atlanta … Continue reading Why “Right to Try” laws are more feel good than do good
The Stem Cellar 