Italian prosecutors on Thursday
asked for four convictions for Brescia hospital staff in a trial
into the discredited Stamina stem-cell treatment. Prosecutors
asked for three years for Ermanna Derelli, former health
director, and Carmen Terraroli, secretary of the ethics
committee; and two years nine months for Arnalda Lanfranchi, the
had of a lab, and for paediatrician Fulvio Porta. In October
2015 a Turin judge ruled that the statute of limitations had
been exceeded in the fraud case against Davide Vannoni,
president of the Stamina Foundation, who was accused of trying
to defraud the northern Piedmont regional health agency of
500,000 euros with his project. In June 2015, a Turin judge
called the Stamina stem cell treatment, invented by Vannoni and
now banned in Italy, "an enormous scientific fraud", and Italy's
supreme Cassation Court said the Stamina treatment "has no
scientific validity".
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