{"id":3526,"date":"2012-07-26T23:21:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T03:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2012-09-07T15:34:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T19:34:52","slug":"court-ruling-fda-can-regulate-stem-cell-clinics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2012\/07\/court-ruling-fda-can-regulate-stem-cell-clinics.html","title":{"rendered":"Court ruling: FDA can regulate stem cell clinics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cross posted from the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/\">Nature News blog<\/a> on behalf of Monya Baker.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The FDA can block U.S. clinics that offer cultured cell products, according to a ruling of a U.S. district court this week.<\/p>\n<p>Though championed by politicians like Governor of Texas Rick Perry, clinics marketing stem-cell procedures worry many healthcare advocates because these procedures are often heavily marketed but not thoroughly tested in clinical trials. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/stem-cell-therapy-takes-off-in-texas-1.10133\">Stem cell therapy takes off in Texas<\/a>\u00a0from nature.com and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.closerlookatstemcells.org\/Top_10_Stem_Cell_Treatment_Facts.htm\">warnings <\/a>compiled by the International Society for Stem Cell Research)<\/p>\n<p>If cells are harvested and returned to a patient with \u201cminimal manipulation\u201d, the procedures are not regulated, but further processing classifies cell treatments as a drug, which requires FDA approval.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/2012\/07\/court-ruling-fda-can-regulate-stem-cell-clinics.html\">Nature News blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FDA can block U.S. clinics that offer cultured cell products, according to a ruling of a U.S. district court this week.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2012\/07\/court-ruling-fda-can-regulate-stem-cell-clinics.html#wpn-more-3526\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2012\/07\/court-ruling-fda-can-regulate-stem-cell-clinics.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-cellscloning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}