barbara
03-30-2009, 03:50 PM
A book was recommended to me called, "Cell of Cells" by Cynthia Fox. I know several doctors that shudder when you mention the names of some doctors and clinics around the world. Dr. Rader (Medra, Inc.) has been brought up on this forum before. Here is an excerpt from Ms. Fox's book, pages 364-365.
"A clinic called Cellulait, run by a Dr. Roman Knyazev in central Moscow, was advertising $2,850 injections of aborted fetus stem cells into thighs, buttocks, and the stomach to fight cellulite. Other clinics were charging as much as $20,000. Furthermore, there have been charges that some of these salons were paying poor women to have abortions in order to gather up their fetal cells. In April, the Ministry of Health announced that 37 out of 41 clinics offering "stem Cell" treatments in Moscow were acting illegally. (Most stayed in business anyway).
But it is the Ukrainian clinics that may ultimately end up wielding the biggest stick in the so-called underground stem cell world. For the launch of Emcell and the Institute for Problems of Crybobiology and Cryomedicine (which has been freezing human tissue since 1972 and is run by Vakentin Grischenko) eventually led to the start of perhaps the largest underground "stem cell" clinic in the Southern hemisphere. It was started by an American, William Rader. The clinic claims to offer fetal and embryonic stem cells and has historically required patients to wire $25,000 to a Swiss Bank account before the clinic will even discuss their cases by phone. Rader was known in the early 1990's as a therapist running a chain of anorexia clinics. Formerly married to Sally Struthers, he once was a cowriter on an All In the Family script. In the mid 1990's he was a reporter for the Christian TV show Lifestyle.
In 1997, after observing work at the Ukraine's Emcell clinic, Rader started his first fetal clinic in the Bahamas with help from a U.S. celebrity or two, using imported cells.
More than a year before Thomson would publish his discovery of the"true" hES cell, Rader hit up Kristina Kiehl Friedman, wife of Levi jeans family member Robert Friedman, to help establish the clinic, according to a former researcher for Friedman. Friedman was cofounder of Voters for Choice with Gloria Steinem. (Steinam had nothing to do with Rader, Friedman would later testify.) Using the line that pro-lifers would never allow such cells for therapy in the U.S., Rader persuaded Friedman to come up with some funding and patients. For the next 3 years, Rader delivered some form of human fetal cells in the bloodstream of 400 patients with a variety of disorders, he claimed. He was closed down in 2000 by the Bahamas Ministry of Health, but reopened shortly after in the Dominican Republic, and claims to have opened more clinics in Prague and Mexico.
Rader is soldiering on. He has published nothing on stem cells and plans to publish nothing, he said in 2005, because a "conspiracy" would build against him if he did. He has claimed to have cured Alzheimer's. As of early 2005, he was charging $30,000 a procedure. His ads appeared on legitimate stem cell Web sites as late as the fall of 2006........
It is shocking that so many doctors, in so many different countries, bypass accepted standards in patient care, "advancing nothing," as British neurologist Geoffrey Raisman told "MIT Technology Review" with reference to one such trial.
"A clinic called Cellulait, run by a Dr. Roman Knyazev in central Moscow, was advertising $2,850 injections of aborted fetus stem cells into thighs, buttocks, and the stomach to fight cellulite. Other clinics were charging as much as $20,000. Furthermore, there have been charges that some of these salons were paying poor women to have abortions in order to gather up their fetal cells. In April, the Ministry of Health announced that 37 out of 41 clinics offering "stem Cell" treatments in Moscow were acting illegally. (Most stayed in business anyway).
But it is the Ukrainian clinics that may ultimately end up wielding the biggest stick in the so-called underground stem cell world. For the launch of Emcell and the Institute for Problems of Crybobiology and Cryomedicine (which has been freezing human tissue since 1972 and is run by Vakentin Grischenko) eventually led to the start of perhaps the largest underground "stem cell" clinic in the Southern hemisphere. It was started by an American, William Rader. The clinic claims to offer fetal and embryonic stem cells and has historically required patients to wire $25,000 to a Swiss Bank account before the clinic will even discuss their cases by phone. Rader was known in the early 1990's as a therapist running a chain of anorexia clinics. Formerly married to Sally Struthers, he once was a cowriter on an All In the Family script. In the mid 1990's he was a reporter for the Christian TV show Lifestyle.
In 1997, after observing work at the Ukraine's Emcell clinic, Rader started his first fetal clinic in the Bahamas with help from a U.S. celebrity or two, using imported cells.
More than a year before Thomson would publish his discovery of the"true" hES cell, Rader hit up Kristina Kiehl Friedman, wife of Levi jeans family member Robert Friedman, to help establish the clinic, according to a former researcher for Friedman. Friedman was cofounder of Voters for Choice with Gloria Steinem. (Steinam had nothing to do with Rader, Friedman would later testify.) Using the line that pro-lifers would never allow such cells for therapy in the U.S., Rader persuaded Friedman to come up with some funding and patients. For the next 3 years, Rader delivered some form of human fetal cells in the bloodstream of 400 patients with a variety of disorders, he claimed. He was closed down in 2000 by the Bahamas Ministry of Health, but reopened shortly after in the Dominican Republic, and claims to have opened more clinics in Prague and Mexico.
Rader is soldiering on. He has published nothing on stem cells and plans to publish nothing, he said in 2005, because a "conspiracy" would build against him if he did. He has claimed to have cured Alzheimer's. As of early 2005, he was charging $30,000 a procedure. His ads appeared on legitimate stem cell Web sites as late as the fall of 2006........
It is shocking that so many doctors, in so many different countries, bypass accepted standards in patient care, "advancing nothing," as British neurologist Geoffrey Raisman told "MIT Technology Review" with reference to one such trial.