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Ninth Circuit Upholds FDA’s Authority to Regulate Stem Cell Clinic Treatments

FDA Law Blog

At the clinics, Defendants offer treatments that consist of extracting fat tissue from patients and, through a multi-step process, turning that tissue into a liquefied mixture of stem cells, other cells and cell debris known as Stromal Vascular Fraction (SVF). 588, 566 (2019)). Robbins , 519 U.S. 452 (1997); see also Kisor v.

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An Arm and a Leg: The Prescription Drug Playbook, Part I

Physician's Weekly

In January of last year, Cole went to a Walgreens in Appleton, Wisconsin, to get refills on the medication he used to control his asthma. A few days later, he had a massive asthma attack. Bob’s journey here begins in 2019 — the first day of high school for his daughter, Mary. He left without it. He was 22 years old.