Cowboy State Daily: Wyoming Lawmakers Move To Bypass FDA On Stem Cell Treatments

The Senate Labor, Health and Social Services Committee on Friday voted unanimously to advance the “Stem Cell Freedom Act,” a proposal that would allow Wyoming physicians to provide certain stem cell treatments not yet approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The bill, SF 42, would create medical guidelines and provide a legal shield against state licensing discipline for doctors using “autologous mesenchymal stem cells,” which are stem cells derived from a person’s fat, bone marrow or connective tissue, and then re-injected to different target areas of the body.

The effort could help patients address intractable health problems by providing a framework for a promising medical technology that’s outpacing federal regulators, said bill sponsor, Sen. Eric Barlow, R-Gillette.

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