FDA Could Delay Adult Stem Cell Breakthroughs

destinyland writes "A Colorado medical advocate says, 'The FDA contends that if one cultures stem cells at all...then it's a prescription drug,' in arguing that revolutionary new treatments could be delayed by 20 years — even using cells extracted from your own body. According to the FDA, even therapies that simply re-inject your body's adult stem cells could be prohibited without five years of clinical trials and millions of dollars of research. How useful are cultured stem cells? 'In animal models, they routinely cure diabetes.'"

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Unclear Summary

[TinBromide]

Of course I refuse to RTFA, but the summary isn't clear. Right now, if I want to undergo treatment that involves adult stem cells harvested from me, to be re-injected from me, I might have to wait 5 years. However, what is not clear is whether it will take 5 years to approve the process such that in 6 years, it might take 2 weeks, or will it take 5 years in 10 years when(if) this process is well understood and old hat?

If it kept you sick or made you worse it'd be ok'd

[Yaddoshi]

If it made you more sick or created serious side-effects that would allow for additional medical treatment ($$$) the FDA would approve it immediately without any trials.

Re:Things change when outside your body

[rts008]

*blinks*
Uhmm...No.
Oh fsck it, your level of ignorance is not worth time correcting.
Live happily in your delusions of being informed, and your dreamworld...may it serve you well.(Heh!Heh!Hahahahhoohooheehee!...ROFLCOPTER!!!)

You may want to educate yourself to appear less than informed/educated in these discussions.

Hint:
If it was sterile when you 'pissed in the bottle', then unless the 'bottle' was sterile, it was contaminated from the start. If the 'bottle' was sterile, and you followed aseptic protocol/procedures/technique, then it would still be 'sterile'...until contaminated by an outside source.

Just because it came from my body doesn't mean it's safe to put back in later or after things have been done to it.

It depends on too many variables for this discussion, but for general purposes, 'it depends'...*cue recursive loop*

You have no clue, do you? *debate this at your own 'intellectual risk'- you are trying to bring a flint knife to a 'nuke' fight here*