The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has gone to court to prevent
the Colorado-based firm Regenerative Sciences from using stem cells
developed in one part of your body (bone marrow) to repair damage in
other parts of your body, such as joints. The FDA objects to the fact
that these cells are chemicals, the use of which they have the power to
regulate even though the cells are taken from your body to later be
injected back into your body.
The FDA is accustomed to the process
by which it requires that many years and millions of dollars be spent
to approve drugs developed in a laboratory before anyone is allowed to
use them. Regardless of clinical results that show use of stem cells to
be highly effective, the FDA finds it intolerable to let you use the
cells in your own body without prior approval by a vast and expensive
bureaucracy.
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