[olsen]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/active/93...lifestyle.html

He was the scientist behind Europe’s largest stem cell clinic, a centre that promised miracle treatments for incurable illnesses from Parkinson’s disease to cerebral palsy.
Except that the XCell-Center, founded and run by Dr Cornelis Kleinbloesem, was charging patients — many of them British — tens of thousands of pounds for treatments that were clinically unproven and almost certainly did not work.
The clinic, in Düsseldorf in Germany, was closed by the authorities last year following an investigation into its practices by The Sunday Telegraph that found that a child died after being injected in the brain with stem cells.
The closure of X-Cell did not seem to put Dr Kleinbloesem off his stride. He opened another clinic this year, this time in Beirut, Lebanon, where it escapes the eyes of Europe’s regulators...

When the XCell-Center closed last year, auditors discovered that it had no almost no money left in its accounts. It is now in the middle of bankruptcy proceedings.
Patients who had handed over deposits for stem cell therapies that never took place are unlikely to get their money back, and investors who put in about £10 million believing that Dr Kleinbloesem was presiding over a pioneering treatment have also lost out..

[Bob Dawson]

Quote:

"Patients who had handed over deposits for stem cell therapies that never took place are unlikely to get their money back..."

Or their hope.

There are predators out there, preying on the wounded and the weak. Pay a deposit for medical help? Since when? And then they find out lots of the money went to furnish a luxurious lifestyle for the Quack-in-Chief? Are we still in the Middle Ages?
If you actually don't care about the patients, get out of the health-care business. There is one whole level of Danté`s inferno specially reserved for those who fleece the weakened and the despairing.

[paula_w]

As you know, we've had many inquiries and people sharing about this treatment. Many laid their hopes upon it, some even post on this board. I wonder which is worse - someone like this CEO or canceling almost every trial after phase 2 following a sham surgery. the death of a girl should possibly be prosecuted.

no one is at the security gate.....who's minding the shop? this man has the globe on which to move around.

i am very grateful for our hard-working researchers; what can we do to keep them honest? excluding the stem cell CEO- who will have to deal with his own guilt and judgement.

was anyone helped by this company?