Stop FDA Shutting Down Adult Stem Cell Research

  • by: Tersal
  • recipient: FDA -Food and Drug Administration, US Congress, President Obama
For years now the FDA has positioned themselves as the authority of medical research including stem cell research. However the mandate of the FDA is food and drug administration and not medical practice. Congress and the courts have repeatedly prohibited the FDA from having any authority over medical procedures.  Now the FDA is trying to gain control of this area through the canary in the coal mine of "stem cells".

In 2008 the FDA issued a warning letter to Regenerative Sciences of Broomfield, Colorado a US medical clinic which uses adult stem cell therapy derived from a person's own stem cells. In actual fact the FDA is overstepping their authority and laying claim to regulate what therapies are available to Americans in their own country. Now the FDA has filed an injunction to stop Regenerative Sciences and taking them to court needlessly.

The clinic is owned by two licensed and expert medical doctors Dr. Christopher Centeno and Dr. John Schultz who are helping patients avoid costly and painful surgeries by helping the bodies own innate ability to heal itself.

The procedure involves taking a sample of stem cells from bone marrow, multiplying and growing more of the same cells and then re-injecting them back to the patient's joints or areas of pain. Basically this procedure helps the body to heal itself naturally, normally without the use of drugs, and without cutting out and replacing bones with metal. You should note that these stem cells are from the patient, not an embryo.

While the researched treatments have proven to be successful in treating arthritic patients and there are no rejection problems from the body,  the FDA is classifying the patient's own stem cells as a drug.

This classification of a person's stem cells as a "drug" means the government is not only interfering in scientifically proven medical care but also they claim to have jurisdiction over your own body's cells.  This has wide implications of control of medicine and the loss of the individual's rights to choose the medicine of their own preference.

The extraction and re-injection of adult stem cells is not medically different from an in vitro fertilization conducted outside the body.
This petition should be spread wide across the United States and will be of interest to all people that believe they own their own body and cells, people who believe that government has no business in matters between patient and doctor.  It should also be important to people who believe that there are more effective modern medical procedures than big pharma options or painful and invasive surgery, both of which carry big complications and side effects.

Also this petition will indicate that Americans want stem cell therapies accelerated not delayed or thwarted by the FDA. Many people with life threatening diseases have been waiting too long for research to cure diseases and the FDA is thwarting such research forcing Americans to travel to foreign countries for this life saving medicine.

While the FDA continues to demand more authority over patient care they have fallen down on their original mandate which is to protect the food supply. Do you really believe we should give the FDA more authority over medicine if they cannot properly inspect an egg farm?

Tell the FDA, the US Congress, and President Obama to stop interfering with adult stem cell medicine, tell them to stop costly court actions and wasting tax payers dollars.
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