[BronUVT]

I personally have communicated with at least 3 of his patients/ parents who have hugely benefited from his treatment.The flak that he has received surprisingly seems to be from those who he has never treated, doctors, stem cell experts etc.

For Wyatt's daddy and Hannah's parents (do a google search) Dr. Rader is God. considering that the children were in really bad shape and now doing great after stem cell treatments, I think Dr. Rader can be given the benefit of doubt.

[rfceicizgm]

A book was recommended to me called, "Cell of Cells" by Cynthia Fox. I know several doctors that shudder when you mention the names of some doctors and clinics around the world. Dr. Rader (Medra, Inc.) has been brought up on this forum before. Here is an excerpt from Ms. Fox's book, pages 364-365.

"A clinic called Cellulait, run by a Dr. Roman Knyazev in central Moscow, was advertising $2,850 injections of aborted fetus stem cells into thighs, buttocks, and the stomach to fight cellulite. Other clinics were charging as much as $20,000. Furthermore, there have been charges that some of these salons were paying poor women to have abortions in order to gather up their fetal cells. In April, the Ministry of Health announced that 37 out of 41 clinics offering "stem Cell" treatments in Moscow were acting illegally. (Most stayed in business anyway).
But it is the Ukrainian clinics that may ultimately end up wielding the biggest stick in the so-called underground stem cell world. For the launch of Emcell and the Institute for Problems of Crybobiology and Cryomedicine (which has been freezing human tissue since 1972 and is run by Vakentin Grischenko) eventually led to the start of perhaps the largest underground "stem cell" clinic in the Southern hemisphere. It was started by an American, William Rader. The clinic claims to offer fetal and embryonic stem cells and has historically required patients to wire $25,000 to a Swiss Bank account before the clinic will even discuss their cases by phone. Rader was known in the early 1990's as a therapist running a chain of anorexia clinics. Formerly married to Sally Struthers, he once was a cowriter on an All In the Family script. In the mid 1990's he was a reporter for the Christian TV show Lifestyle.
In 1997, after observing work at the Ukraine's Emcell clinic, Rader started his first fetal clinic in the Bahamas with help from a U.S. celebrity or two, using imported cells.
More than a year before Thomson would publish his discovery of the"true" hES cell, Rader hit up Kristina Kiehl Friedman, wife of Levi jeans family member Robert Friedman, to help establish the clinic, according to a former researcher for Friedman. Friedman was cofounder of Voters for Choice with Gloria Steinem. (Steinam had nothing to do with Rader, Friedman would later testify.) Using the line that pro-lifers would never allow such cells for therapy in the U.S., Rader persuaded Friedman to come up with some funding and patients. For the next 3 years, Rader delivered some form of human fetal cells in the bloodstream of 400 patients with a variety of disorders, he claimed. He was closed down in 2000 by the Bahamas Ministry of Health, but reopened shortly after in the Dominican Republic, and claims to have opened more clinics in Prague and Mexico.
Rader is soldiering on. He has published nothing on stem cells and plans to publish nothing, he said in 2005, because a "conspiracy" would build against him if he did. He has claimed to have cured Alzheimer's. As of early 2005, he was charging $30,000 a procedure. His ads appeared on legitimate stem cell Web sites as late as the fall of 2006........
It is shocking that so many doctors, in so many different countries, bypass accepted standards in patient care, "advancing nothing," as British neurologist Geoffrey Raisman told "MIT Technology Review" with reference to one such trial.

[Janny2006]

Yes, he is one of the very few to absolutely avoid.

[Amerworma]

So far in reading what you have posted I don't see why I would avoid him. I am leary of all of them. One of the only ones, NorthWestern University, that has been published was done years ago and how do you get involved in something like it. I personally don't think I have another 10 years to wait and then find out that I got the placebo. Not to mention the chemo. I'll do it in a second, where do I sign up???

When you say legit doctors, who do you mean, legit stem cell doctors or doctors that want you to inject copaxone or rebif for the remainder of your life. Same doctors that are not very willing to tell about alternatives but, are very willing to tell you to get used to canes - walkers and wheelchairs. I am not real interested in what there veiw is at the moment. I want real help and real hope.


I am scared to death but, I am still doing it.


Dwayne

[Patamuta]

I guess what I meant by legit doctors are those that actually care about keeping records and documenting a patient's progress in the hopes of perhaps publishing these or presenting them to fellow doctors. Dr. Rader is at least being honest when he says as long as a person sends their money, he will treat them and he doesn't care about documenting anything. This is according to the author Cynthia Fox and I simply printed what she wrote. I wish you well. I am a patient too and I have empathy with you in that conventional medicine is just not working for some of us. I caution people on this forum however to not jump from the frying pan into the fire. How can I say that? Because with my first treatment, that is exactly what I did. I have learned a lot since then and my ears and eyes are always open. Unfortunately, Dr. Rader just doesn't get high marks with any of the stem cell doctors that I know and they are all mavericks and pioneers. No stodge podges amongst them if you know what I mean.

[isopsmypovA]

I wasn't trying to be contrary, I am sure it sounds that way. I joined this site and a few others to try and find out where I should or should not get help. I still cannot find a single bad comment from a patient of Dr. Rader. I have alot of good ones from patients of his. I don't know if he is paying them. What I do know is that he is keeping track of my medical history, so he can follow up with me. I don't care if he ever gets published if this works.

I don't think the current system works all that great for people with cronic illnesses. Paper writing, getting published waiting for FDA approval is great for anti-biotics or acid reflux drugs but, I don't think these guys are neccessarily on our side anymore. They certainly don't have the same sense of urgency.

Please let me know if you have information about other doctors that I might be interested in.


Dwayne

[valiumcheapll]

Dwayne - I am just quoting out of a book as I told you, but it is strange to me that other doctors do not seem to feel that he is concerned about patient safety. We have only had one person on this forum who took her child there. No one else that has posted on the open forum that I know of. She was so excited to begin with and then we heard nothing more from her. I have no idea why. Have you contacted other stem cells doctors or did Dr. Rader simply state that he could help you with your condition and so you didn't search any more? I am not one that cares about peer reviewed articles to the extent that some do, but when a doctor states that he is not concerned at all about documenting patients that seems more like a money machine to me than anything else. It also seems a little scary. Will you get any type of documentation as to where the fetal cells come from? What exactly is he offering? How long ago did treatment take place for those that claim he helped them. In Ms. Fox's book, there were several paragraphs describing how one child's fetal treatment kept wearing off and the child was asked to return for more and more therapy. It was not very encouraging.
When I got my first treatment, many said I was brave. Looking back on it, considering the cells were probably contaminated that I got at SCB, I might have been brave, but I was also stupid. I am much more cautious now.

[ethigSmimbine]

I know that Rader was one of the first doctors posted on:
www.quackwatch.com

I don't know the legitimacy of the website,
just that he was listed there from the beginning, and is now,
as "The Shady Side of Embryonic Stem Cell Therapy".

You can take the article (and website) at face value.

[Biassasecumma]

Hello Everyone, i would like to update you with information I have found about Medra.

It is a scam. They are lying on the website.

Brian's Miracle aka Jake Brower is a twisted manipulation of facts.

http://www.medra.com/brian.html

According to the archived Steenblock newslatter Jake's progress was during his treatment by their clinic. Please note the same pictures from Medra are in the Steenblock newsletter.


http://web.archive.org/web/200611110...P-OCT-2006.pdf, m,

WOW. According to Medra when Brian aka Jake was treated by doctor Rader later in 2006, this was his medical condition :

Brian slowly began to improve into what is called ?a minimally responsive / semi-vegetative state? breathing through a tracheotomy and being fed liquids through a "G-Tube" placed in his stomach. Although he was improving, eventually Brian was left blind, unable to speak, could only minimally move only his right side and appeared to be extremely cognitively impaired.

This continued for three years until I found Dr. Rader who agreed to treat Brian with the Fetal Stem Cells.

WOW Steenblocks newsletter clearly shows that is a outright lie.

John Brower, Jakes father is patient relations over at Medra and the wife works sales.
He travels around getting free press for Rader by attending legitimate stem cell summits etc.

http://www.madison.com/tct/news/306200

A very well scripted con.

Ricci the youtube and self magazine star has always been on my list because if you have any knowledge of SCI's, you would know that a lower back incomplete injury would not be a miracle if they walked. In the Medra infomercial Ricci states "I wasnt offered a whole lot of umm therapy because they didn't have a lot of hope" . Liar, you would have to be in war torn Afghanistan to have a doctor not offer you therapy.

This information from an archived vaultworld newsletter confirms what I knew in my heart to be true:

http://www.vaultworld.com/vaultngus/...2000/05-45.txt

SURGERY SUCCESSFUL FOR RICCI KILGORE, ISU TRACK ATHLETE
INVOLVED IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT:

Feeling Restored Throughout Her Legs - Medical Team Says
She'll Walk Again

WOW the year of her accident she had felling in her legs. Fraud.

Even Rader's first miracle child, Clayton Fatherlee, the seizing child with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, has shady undertones.. Claytons parents are Azita Karimkhany Fatheree and George C Fatheree. In this article Azita talks of how she stored her son's cord blood. Why would they take their son to Rader for so called fetal stem cells, instead of using his own cord blood. Clayton starting have seizures on mid 2002 and does not appear on the Medra wbsite until Nov 24th, 2005, over three years since the fisrt occurance. Was he cured miraculously by William Rader. Remember Lennox Gastaut is a roller coaster ride with periods where the child is seizure free. If the pattern hold true, the facts are all a maniputation of time and recovery minus alternative treatments that may have taken place in the three years.

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2001/12/48957

Felicia Gallo, Wyatts dad are also sales reps. When you call Medra you get passed around to the same few people.

The whole thing is a scam. I actually thought these people wrongly believed Rader helped their kids.
They are a well scripted group of con artists. It breaks my heart the money they have manipulated out of people.

Not to mention the the bad name false clinics like Medra give to the legitimate researchers and doctors.

[Quigoxito]

One wonder's how much host graft rejection there is in the patients who receive fetal stem cells he injects. I used to be on a listserve about HBOT and a child of one of the listserve participants died some point after receiving stem cells. It may very well have been unrelated but it makes me shudder, nonetheless.
David Snow