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Turns out, sex may help fight against cancer!

In the battle against cancer, new study points out how sex and certain virus can help the fight against the deadly disease. As per a research conducted by The Ottawa Hospital, flu vaccine when combined with certain medications used to treat Erectile Dysfunction can help one wipe off the cancer cells that may be left after surgery. As per the study, this method may prove to be very effective as in the mice model, it helped reduce the spread of cancer by over 90 per cent. This is the world’s first clinical trial regarding the subject matter. "Surgery is very effective in removing solid tumours. However, we're now realizing that, tragically, surgery can also suppress the immune system in a way that makes it easier for any remaining cancer cells to persist and spread to other organs. Our research suggests that combining erectile dysfunction drugs with the flu vaccine may be able to block this phenomenon and help prevent cancer from coming back after surgery," said...

US Moves to Shut Down 2 Big Stem Cell Therapy Clinics

Federal authorities Wednesday moved to shut down two of the country’s most prominent for-profit providers of stem cell therapy, one of them a network of clinics with more than 100 offices in the United States, including several in the Bay Area. The Food and Drug Administration filed two complaints in federal court requesting permanent injunctions that would stop Florida-based U.S. Stem Cell Clinic and the California Stem Cell Treatment Center from marketing therapies. Both companies have previously been called out by the FDA for providing unproven, unapproved therapies that could put patients at risk. The injunction requests are an aggressive move by the FDA to patrol the consumer stem cell market. The agency has come under mounting pressure by scientists and patient advocates to increase oversight of the growing consumer market, which has been allowed to flourish for years. “In the two cases filed today, the clinics and their leadership have continued to disregard th...

FDA & DOJ seek injunctions on 2 key unproven Stem Cell Clinic firms

The DOJ and FDA are seeking permanent injunctions in federal court against two of the most widespread and influential of the for-profit, unproven stem cell clinic firms in the U.S. This story is breaking so I’ll have more later this week. The take home is that I see this action as a positive, probably historic turning point for dealing with the for-profit stem cell clinic problem in the U.S. Update: US Stem Cell says it intends to fight the DOJ in court. “One compliant (sic) was filed against U.S. Stem Cell Clinic of Sunrise, Florida, and its officers Kristin Comella and Theodore Gradel. A separate complaint was filed against Stem Cell Treatment Center of Rancho Mirage and Beverly Hills California, and its owners, Elliot Lander and Mark Berman.” What are these businesses? Shoot, where do I start? I just did a post earlier today on how US Stem Cell leadership was talking in a Facebook video publicly about what seemed to potentially be a dangerous GM stem cell-based...