Stem cell companies sell hope with unproven medicine for COVID-19 and other incurable diseases

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Stem cell treatments offer tantalizing hope for the future. But such lofty claims are not out of character in the world of stem cell marketing, where hundreds of businesses offer remedies for various ailments — almost all unproven.

In a message posted on Facebook in early May, a startup company in San Diego tried to sell a big batch of futuristic hope to those infected by COVID-19.

The financial motive is powerful. Before it went bust amid legal trouble, StemGenex took in $4.4 million in gross revenue in 2017 and charged $14,900 per treatment, according to court records. Exosomes – extracellular vesicles released from cells – also have been marketed as treatments for various health concerns, although no exosome products have been approved by the FDA. But no FDA or FTC enforcement action could be found against Novus and neither agency would comment, saying they typically don't discuss possible enforcement cases.

The company didn’t return a message seeking comment and was still marketing the product as of Monday. After an email inquiry from USA TODAY that same day, the product disappeared from the company's website. Knoepfler tracks the stem cell industry and conducts stem cell research at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. He estimates there are about 1,000 stem cell clinics in the U.S., up fromThe FDA has not approved any stem-cell based products for use, except for cord-blood-derived blood-forming stem cells for certain indications, such as blood disorders.

 

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I DONT WANT IT GOING ON FOR YEARS AND THE TRUTH IS IF IT WERE A VIRUS IT WOULD EVENTUALY DIE OUT ANYWAY WITHIN 6 MONTHS I DONT THINK COVID 19 IS A VIRUS BUT SOMETHING FAR MORE DEADLY TIME THE TRUTH WAS TOLD I THINK

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