Plastic Surgeons and Adipose Banking: The Harvest Documentation and Informed Consent Checklist

Plastic surgeons and adipose banking: the harvest documentation and informed consent checklist

Plastic surgeons already harvest adipose tissue at higher volume than any other specialty, through liposuction, lipoaspirate collection for fat grafting, and body contouring. For them, adding banking is a workflow modification rather than a new procedure: tissue that is already being removed is diverted to a banking container instead of discarded. The incremental procedural burden […]

What the Post-Thaw Viability Report Means and Why Florida SB 1768 Requires It

What the post-thaw viability report means and why florida sb 1768 requires it

Florida SB 1768 requires that before stem cells are used in a patient, the physician receive and review a post-thaw viability analysis report from the accredited facility. It is one of the most operationally specific obligations in the statute, and it is frequently misunderstood as a one-time formality rather than a per-use prerequisite. What follows […]

Right to Try vs. Expanded Access: The Critical Differences Every Physician Must Know

Right to try vs. Expanded access: the critical differences every physician must know

Since the federal Right to Try Act was signed in 2018, the two pathways for reaching investigational therapies outside a clinical trial, Right to Try and expanded access, have often been treated as interchangeable. They are not. They differ in legal basis, FDA involvement, IRB requirements, eligibility standards, and the protections each affords, and those […]

Active Clinical Trials Using Adipose-Derived MSCs: A 2026 Physician Reference

Active clinical trials using adipose-derived mscs: a 2026 physician reference

The clinical case for banking autologous adipose tissue rests on a research pipeline, and that pipeline is best understood from primary sources rather than summaries. As of 2026, active trials are studying adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells across several condition categories, from neurodegenerative disease to musculoskeletal and inflammatory conditions. What follows is a physician reference to […]

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