{"id":29086,"date":"2025-06-05T13:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29086"},"modified":"2025-06-05T14:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:24:13","slug":"kennedy-says-charlatans-are-no-reason-to-block-unproven-stem-cell-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29086","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Says \u2018Charlatans\u2019 Are No Reason to Block Unproven Stem Cell Treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The U.S. health secretary said people should have access to experimental therapies including unregulated stem cells. But some methods have resulted in blindness, tumors and other injuries.<\/p>\n

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently declared that he wanted to expand access to experimental therapies but conceded that they could be risky or fraudulent.<\/p>\n

In a podcast with Gary Brecka<\/a>, who describes himself as a longevity expert, Mr. Kennedy vowed to end what he called the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s war with alternative medicine. He said that would include stem cells, vitamins, peptides and chelation therapy, which involves removing heavy metals from the blood.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to take an experimental drug \u2014 you can do that, you ought to be able to do that,\u201d Mr. Kennedy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd of course you\u2019re going to get a lot of charlatans, and you\u2019re going to get people who have bad results,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd ultimately, you can\u2019t prevent that either way. Leaving the whole thing in the hands of pharma is not working for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Kennedy cited his own experience at a clinic in Antigua, where he said he received a stem cell treatment that \u201cenormously\u201d eased his neurological condition, spasmodic dysphonia, which affects his voice and has few treatment options.<\/p>\n

If Mr. Kennedy does permit broader use of unauthorized or experimental therapies, he would be reversing longstanding efforts by the F.D.A. to monitor and sometimes police the emerging field. Experts, including some who support alternative medicine, worry that without safeguards, an expansion of such treatments could undermine legitimate development of new therapies.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. health secretary said people should have access to experimental therapies including unregulated stem cells. But some methods have resulted in blindness, tumors and other injuries.Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently declared that he wanted to expand access to experimental therapies but conceded that they could be risky or fraudulent.In a podcast with Gary Brecka, who describes himself as a longevity expert, Mr. Kennedy vowed to end what he called the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s war with alternative medicine. He said that would include stem cells, vitamins, peptides and chelation therapy, which involves removing heavy metals from the blood.\u201cIf you want to take an experimental drug \u2014 you can do that, you ought to be able to do that,\u201d Mr. Kennedy said.\u201cAnd of course you\u2019re going to get a lot of charlatans, and you\u2019re going to get people who have bad results,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd ultimately, you can\u2019t prevent that either way. Leaving the whole thing in the hands of pharma is not working for us.\u201dMr. Kennedy cited his own experience at a clinic in Antigua, where he said he received a stem cell treatment that \u201cenormously\u201d eased his neurological condition, spasmodic dysphonia, which affects his voice and has few treatment options.If Mr. Kennedy does permit broader use of unauthorized or experimental therapies, he would be reversing longstanding efforts by the F.D.A. to monitor and sometimes police the emerging field. Experts, including some who support alternative medicine, worry that without safeguards, an expansion of such treatments could undermine legitimate development of new therapies.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29088,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29089,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29086\/revisions\/29089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}