Senior Law Lecturer, Western Sydney University
Dr Patrick Foong has taught law for many years in different countries and has spent the last fifteen years in the Australasian region. Currently, he is the academic programme advisor, and senior lecturer, at the School of Law at Western Sydney University, Australia.
The unanimous verdict of a Florida jury that the Tampa-based Lung Institute was guilty of deceptively and unfairly selling stem cell treatments that caused damage to patients, could prove to be a landmark case in the fight against unproven stem cell treatments…
China recently updated its regulation on human genome editing, a positive outcome after Dr He Jiankui created the world's first genome-edited babies. However, do these regulations go far enough?...
The latest genome editing approaches and treatments, as well as ethical issues and equitable access, were discussed at the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing...
The recent court ruling that the US FDA's powers do not extend to regulating some stem cell treatments is a blow for those hoping for better regulation of unproven treatments, argues Dr Patrick Foong...
StemGenex, a now-closed stem cell clinic in San Diego, California, has agreed to pay out US$3.65 million as a class action settlement to its former patients for ineffective stem cell treatments they received...
In the USA, clinics offering stem cell therapies not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration expanded four-fold in just five years...
Is an international conversation on the 14-day rule needed in the light of the development of iBlastoids?...
A law firm has filed a class action against Monash IVF, one of Australia's largest IVF clinics, following allegations that the fertility clinic may have destroyed healthy embryos through a defective non-invasive genetic screening test...
Proposition 14 proposes a considerable loan to fund stem cell research, but in the current financial climate this is likely to cause more harm than good...
CRISPR-based genome editing has revolutionised molecular life sciences, however the ISSCR provides guidelines for responsible and ethical research to achieve safe and effective use...
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