Michael Hiltzik: US judge rejects FDA bid to shut down stem cell clinics, dealing blow to regulators

A Los Angeles federal judge has rejected a government motion that could have shut down a network of clinics offering customers allegedly unauthorized stem cell treatments.

The ruling by Judge Jesus G. Bernal potentially deals a setback for the Food and Drug Administration's campaign against treatments using stem cell preparations that the FDA has not approved.

In the ruling published late Monday, Bernal denied the government's motion for summary judgment in its lawsuit