The rocky road to regulation
September 24, 2009
When the Hungarian police arrested four people at a Budapest hospital that offered unlicensed stem cell treatments this July, it clearly showed the Hungarian government’s will to enforce its established regulations on medical practice.1 This was not the first legal action against a rule-skirting clinic — watchdog Stephen Barrett reports how the United States sought to prosecute the owners of the stem cell company Biomark on 51 counts of fraud before they fled the United States in 2006.2 (Nature Reports Stem Cells)
