Friday, January 6, 2012

FBI crackdown on unproven stem cell therapies

FBI crackdown on unproven stem cell therapies - health - 05 January 2012 - New Scientist: They are the modern equivalent of snake oil merchants: clinics that charge desperately ill people thousands for unproven stem cell "cures." Now the US federal government is cracking down on one of the most notorious – and the defendants include a scientist at a leading research university.

Vincent Dammai, of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, is named in a federal indictment as part of a team that allegedly received more than $1.5 million from people with cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

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