by rss feed | Jun 24, 2026 | Autism, News Feeds, RFK Jr. stem cells, Tracy Slepcevic
Are stem cells for autism promising? The answer so far is a clear “no”. Even a Duke team that was for a time very upbeat about the potential of umbilical cord cell therapy for autism seems to have lost that enthusiasm. For example, they stopped their EAP...
by rss feed | Apr 4, 2025 | Kennedy stem cells, News Feeds, RFK Jr. stem cells, stem cell politics
How bad could things get with RFK Jr. changing the FDA’s approach to unproven stem cells? I’ve been asking myself this for months since Kennedy’s post that mentioned stem cells on X. New developments suggest things will get much worse. Up until about...
by rss feed | Mar 16, 2025 | News Feeds, RFK Jr. stem cells, RFK regenerative medicine, stem cell politics
I had a feeling late last year that I’d frequently be writing about RFK Jr. and his impact on the FDA. However, I didn’t realize some of that would be writing for STAT News. As I mentioned a few days ago, I now have a new regular column over there. I...
by rss feed | Feb 13, 2025 | News Feeds, RFK Jr. FDA, RFK Jr. stem cells, stem cell politics
There were many reasons for the U.S. Senate not to confirm RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary. Reasons that transcended politics. Nonetheless, Senate Republicans confirmed him today for that post. Some of them had voiced serious concerns before including one physician Senator,...
by rss feed | Dec 1, 2024 | Arnold Caplan, News Feeds, RFK Jr. stem cells, Scott Gottlieb, weekly reads
Remember former Trump’s FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb? Gottlieb’s back in the news in an interesting way related to the upcoming second Trump administration. I just wrote about what to expect from new FDA Commissioner nominee Marty Makary. In that piece,...
