A Spokane oncologist that has saved hundreds of lives, marked a special milestone Monday, as he performed his 300th procedure. It's called autologous bone marrow stem cell transplantation, and it's a way of giving high-dose chemotherapy to cancer patients.
The FDA filed two complaints Wednesday seeking to permanently ban two clinics from marketing stem cell products without regulatory approval.
Just months after the US Food and Drug Administration announced efforts to crack down on stem cell clinics touting unapproved therapies, the agency now plans to help expedite the development of stem cell therapies proved to be safe and effective.
Cottonwood resident Harold "Bud" Poxleitner was paralyzed in 1968 after a logging accident. His cousin, 40-year-old Robert Braucher, was paralyzed in 2003 in a car crash.
