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April 1, 2024. Meredith Wadman. Utah flouts FDA with law greenlighting placental stem cell therapies. Science. Available at: https://www.science.org/content/article/utah-flouts-fda-law-greenlighting-placental-stem-cell-therapies
March 18, 2024. Jessica Hamzelou. The quest to legitimize longevity medicine. MIT Technology Review. Available at: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/18/1089888/the-quest-to-legitimize-longevity-medicine/
January 4, 2024. Patrick Foong. Consumers should beware of stem cell treatments for COVID-19. BioEdge. Available at: https://bioedge.org/stem-cells/consumers-should-beware-of-stem-cell-treatments-for-covid-19/
December 22, 2023. Rachael Robertson and Kristina Fiore. Long COVID and Stem Cells. MedPod Today/MedPage Today (Podcast episode and interview transcript). Available at: https://www.medpagetoday.com/podcasts/anamnesis/107985
December 12, 2023. Kristina Fiore. Companies Market Stem Cell Treatments to Long COVID Patients. MedPage Today. Available at: https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/107822
November 29, 2023. Quinn Eastman. Study Shows Businesses Selling Unapproved Stem Cell Treatments Have Turned to Long COVID. Journal of the American Medical Association 330; 24: 2326-2327. Available at: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2812505
November 12, 2023. The Selling of Stem Cells Podcast Episode. The Stem Cell Report Interview with Journal Editor-in-Chief Dr. Partin Pera. Available at: https://thestemcellreport.buzzsprout.com/1661578/13958668-the-selling-of-stem-cells
October 27, 2023. Ed Cara. Stem Cell Clinics Are Selling Shady, Unproven Treatments for Long Covid. Gizmodo. Available at: https://gizmodo.com/stem-cell-therapy-clinics-long-covid-risks-cost-1850967572
October 27, 2023. David Jensen. From UC Irvine: New Study of Dubious Stem Cell Clinics and Their Pitches for Their “Cures.” The California Stem Cell Report. Available at: https://david293.substack.com/p/new-study-of-dubious-stem-cell-clinics?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=264617&post_id=138337839&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=jxpz4
October 26, 2023. Jess Thomson. American Long Covid Sufferers Preyed on by Unregulated Stem Cell Clinics. Newsweek. Available at: https://www.newsweek.com/long-covid-stem-cell-treament-not-fda-regulated-1838282
October 26, 2023, Lindsay Kalter. Clinics Peddle Unproven Stem Cell Treatment for Long COVID. WebMD. Available at: https://www.webmd.com/covid/news/20231026/clinics-peddle-unproven-stem-cell-treatment-for-long-covid
October 26, 2023. Dennis Thompson. Clinics Hawking Bogus Stem Cell Cures for Long COVID Are Everywhere. HealthDay. https://www.healthday.com/health-news/clinics-hawking-bogus-stem-cell-cures-for-long-covid-are-everywhere.
October 26 2023. Susan Kreimer. Many businesses promote unproven long-COVID treatments, researchers say. UPI Health News. Available at: https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2023/10/26/long-covid-unproven-treatments-survey/5621698328320/
October 26, 2023. City News Service. UC Irvine Researchers shine light on deceptive COVID-19 treatments. Orange County Register. Available at: https://www.ocregister.com/2023/10/26/uc-irvine-researchers-shine-light-on-deceptive-covid-19-treatments/
July 12, 2023. Sophie Putka. Stem Cell Medical Tourism Leads to Meningitis in MS Patient. MedPage Today. Available at: https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/105448
June 26, 2023. Sophie Putka. At $20K, Stem Cell Eye Injections May Also Cost Patients Their Sight. MedPage Today. Available at: https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/105189
June 9, 2023. Rachael Robertson. Video of Stem Cell Injection Alarms Doctors. MedPage Today. Available at: https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/104933
May 1, 2023. Frank Swain. Inside the Secretive Life-Extension Clinic. Wired. Available at: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bioviva-gene-therapies-liz-parrish-longevity
April 28, 2023. Solarina Ho. ‘Snake Oil’ Fake Cures for Long COVID Leave Patients at Risk. WebMD. Available at: https://www.webmd.com/covid/news/20230428/snake-oil-fake-cures-for-long-covid-leave-patients-at-risk
April 26, 2023. Frank Swain. Buying Time: Exposing the Quest to Cure Ageing. Audible Original Podcast Series (6 Episodes). Big Light Productions and Vespucci. Available at: https://www.playpodcast.net/podcast/buying-time/
April 25, 2023. Kristina Fiore. Be wary of unproven eye drop treatment with amniotic fluid, FDA says. ABC News/ABC7NY/WABC-TV/MedPage Today. Available at: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wary-unproven-eye-drop-treatment-amniotic-fluid-fda/story?id=98836159 & MedPage Today at: https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/104172
April 25, 2023. Patrick Foong. China’s revised regulation on human genome editing: the good news and the bad news. BioEdge. Available at: https://bioedge.org/genetics/chinas-revised-regulation-on-human-genome-editing-the-good-news-and-the-bad-news/
April 17, 2023. Anna Merlan. Duke Has Quietly Discontinued a Costly, Unproven Autism Treatment. Vice.Available at: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3vn9/duke-stem-cells-autism-cryocell
March 21, 2023. Patrick Foong. Third global summit on human genome editing: Moving on after the He experiment. BioEdge. Available at: https://bioedge.org/genetics/third-global-summit-on-human-genome-editing-moving-on-after-the-he-experiment/
February 27, 2023. Gail Dutton. Breakthrough therapies are breaking patients’ banks. Key changes could improve access, experts say. Upworthy Science. Available at: https://upworthyscience.com/affordable-health-care/particle-2
February 13, 2023. Laurie Clarke. This biohacking company is using a crypto city to test controversial gene therapies. MIT Technology Review. Available at: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/13/1068330/minicircle-prospera-honduras-biohacking-follistatin-gene-therapy/