Stamina, Vannoni announces a formal notice to the Ministry of Health - Wired.it

Not even the new Committee called upon to assess the method Stamina meets its creator. What promises to be a second appeal to the TAR

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January 2, 2014

four researchers including from the Ministry of Health in the new Committee for the Evaluation of Stamina that do not meet the expectations of David Vannoni , creator and main proponent of the method discussed based stem cells . For this reason, tells himself: “Next week start a formal letter to the Ministry of Health” as the new pool of experts would be composed, according Vannoni “for at least a third by researchers who have spoken negatively about the method Stamina” .

In the event of a lack of response from the ministry, the patron of Stamina Foundation already shaping a second appeal to the TAR , after that, won December 4, calling on the authorities to restore the committee of experts to evaluate the protocols according to criteria greater objectivity and including foreign scientists. And that led, in fact, a new possibility to the alleged “care” . A “care” which, remember, includes cycles infusions of immature cells in the bone marrow directly in the blood and bone marrow of patients with neurodegenerative diseases or autoimmune in an attempt to restore functionality compromised, even in the absence of any scientific evidence nor clinical findings.

Vannoni (as he wrote on his Facebook page ) has no objection to the choice of the guarantor of the new Committee, the President of the Methodist Research Institute in Houston Mauro Ferrari which indeed seems “starting on the right foot,” as willing to personally meet the children and adults treated with Stamina, as well as their doctors.

No objection even on foreign staminologi chosen by the Minister of Health: Professor Sally Temple of the Neural Stem Cell Institute of New York and the scientist Curt R. Freed of the School of Medicine in Chicago.

heavy criticism , however, the President’s Stamina against the other four members, chosen among biologists and clinicians experienced in the field of cell therapy in Italy.

In particular, Carlo Dionisi Vici Hospital Bambino Gesù in Rome for Vannoni would be too close to a member of the previous committee, from Little Brown , in order to be considered impartial. The opinion of Vania Broccoli , at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, it would not be reliable because the scientist is involved in research projects funded by Telethon and then, according to Vannoni, would create a obvious conflict of interest in the evaluation of the protocols.

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Antonio Birds of the Center for Multiple Sclerosis Genoa and Francesco Frassoni Giannina Gaslini Scientific Institute in the same city, the problem would be to Vannoni some statements about the method Stamina previously made with respect to the appointment and that would be incompatible with the guidelines of the order of Tar.

If the letter of formal notice announced by Vannoni will be sent, he’ll be back to the Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin assess whether or not to accept its terms. Including, inform the professor, you will also be required to recruit patients from the waiting list for infusions to the Civil Hospital of Brescia and use in the trial prepared exclusively from its laboratories .