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'''Dr. William Rader''' earned his medical degree at the State University of New York (SUNY) in 1967 with top honors.<ref name="Medra Inc.">[http://www.medra.com] www.Medra.com</ref> He was first in his medical residency class at the University of Southern California Medical Center.<ref name="Medra Inc.">[http://www.medra.com] www.Medra.com</ref> His medical career began in the area of psychiatry where Dr. Rader achieved great success pioneering programs for recovery from alcoholism, drug addiction and eating disorders (Bulimia and Anorexia), as well as developing the principals of the treatment program at the Betty Ford Recovery Center.<ref name="Medra Inc.">[http://www.medra.com] www.Medra.com</ref> For over a decade he was one of the first medical experts in the media.<ref name="Medra Inc.">[http://www.medra.com] www.Medra.com</ref> He opened the first HIV program in Latin America, as well as creating a successful research program to eliminate arterial plaque, in association with a major pharmaceutical company in Mexico City.<ref name="Medra Inc.">[http://www.medra.com] www.Medra.com</ref> Dr. Rader’s medical interests shifted to Fetal Stem Cell research in 1994 when he spent a year doing due diligence in Eastern Europe and China.<ref name="Medra Inc.">[http://www.medra.com] www.Medra.com</ref> Since then he is the only American physician using Fetal Stem Cell therapy and has treated over one thousand five hundred patients.<ref name="Medra Inc.">[http://www.medra.com] www.Medra.com</ref> For further information please visit http://www.medra.com. |
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'''William C. Rader, M.D.''' is a controversial [[Malibu, California|Malibu]] [[psychiatrist]] who began administering [[fetus|fetal]] "[[stem cell]]" treatments offshore in the 1990s.<ref name="Quackwatch">[http://www.quackwatch.org/06ResearchProjects/stemcell.html The Shady Side of Embryonic Stem Cell Therapy ''Stephen Barrett MD Quackwatch'']</ref><ref name="SacBee">[http://www.rideforlife.com/news/stem_cell_research/stem_cells_hopes_lure_many_abroad_1.html Stem Cells, Hopes Lure Many Abroad January 11 2005], Laura Mecoy, ''Sacramento Bee''.</ref><ref name="LATimes">[http://www.latimes.com/features/health/medicine/la-sci-stemside20feb20,1,206108.story Outside the U.S., businesses run with unproved stem cell therapies ''February 22, 2005''], Alan Zarembo, ''Los Angeles Times''.</ref><ref name="DailyMail">[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-399376/A-barbaric-kind-beauty.html A barbaric kind of beauty ''August 7, 2006''], Andrea Thompson, ''Daily Mail''.</ref><ref name="KABC">[http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local&id=5283114 Doctor Claims Controversial Stem Cell Treatment Works ''May 7, 2007 (KABC-TV)'']</ref><ref name="WaPo">[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/29/AR2008082902517_pf.html Injections of Hope ''September 2, 2008''], Bryan Vastag, ''Washington Post''.</ref> |
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Rader first observed the treatment in the mid-1990s at an [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] clinic (which had been freezing fetal tissue and treating patients since 1972).<ref name="LATimes"/> After escorting patients to the Ukraine, Rader set up an independent business in the [[Bahamas]] in 1997.<ref name="Quackwatch"/><ref name="LATimes"/> A critical television report prompted the Bahamian government to close Rader's clinic in 2000.<ref name="LATimes"/> Rader later set up a clinic in the [[Dominican Republic]].<ref name="LATimes"/> Rader has marketed his therapy under a variety of business names including Czech Foundation, Dulcinea Institute, Ltd., Mediquest Ltd., and Medra, Inc.<ref name="Quackwatch"/> |
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Rader has claimed success treating a wide variety of illnesses and ailments. "I have literally cured early [[Alzheimer's]]," Rader told the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' in 2005.<ref name="LATimes"/> As of 2005, Rader claimed to have treated more than a thousand [[medical tourism|medical tourists]] with "stem cell" suspensions originating in the former [[Soviet republic (system of government)|Soviet republic]] of [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]].<ref name="LATimes"/> Rader has not published any medical study or report of his methods and successes because to do so, he says, would invite a "conspiracy" of criticism from scientists, government agencies, pharmaceutical companies and abortion opponents.<ref name="LATimes"/> In May 2007, Rader claimed to a Los Angeles television station (which previously employed him) that he had discovered a cure for [[AIDS]].<ref name="KABC"/><ref name="Edwards">[http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/05/doctor_claims_s.html Doctor Claims Stem-Cell-Derived Cure For AIDS ''May 9, 2007''], Steven Edwards, ''Wired'' Science.</ref> Rader has refused independent examination and testing of his product by legitimate stem cell researchers.<ref name="KABC"/> |
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Before entering the stem cell business, Rader ran a chain of [[eating disorder]] clinics in [[Southern California]] called the Rader Institute, Inc., which ultimately filed for [[Chapter 7, Title 11, United States Code|Chapter 7]] bankruptcy protection in 2004 claiming outstanding debts of $1,279,700 and no assets.<ref name="bankrupt">[http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-118039931.html Rader Institute Chapter 7 Bankruptcy filings], April 29, 2004 and May 4, 2004.</ref> |
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For more than a decade beginning in the late 1970s, Rader was an on-air medical expert for [[KABC-TV]] in [[Los Angeles]].<ref name="LATimes"/><ref name="KABC"/> Rader was married from 1977 until 1983 to the actress [[Sally Struthers]], who gave birth to the couple's daughter in 1979.<ref name="Struthers">[http://www.sallystruthers.org/sally-struthers-trivia.php Sally Struthers Trivia]</ref> Rader was the co-author of a two-part 1977 episode of [[All in the Family]], "Archie's Bitter Pill", in which the character [[Archie Bunker]] develops and recovers from an [[amphetamine]] [[addiction]].<ref name="fandango">[http://www.fandango.com/williamc.radermd/filmography/p331677 William C. Rader M.D. filmography], Fandango.com.</ref> |
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Revision as of 03:53, 9 April 2009
Dr. William Rader earned his medical degree at the State University of New York (SUNY) in 1967 with top honors.[1] He was first in his medical residency class at the University of Southern California Medical Center.[1] His medical career began in the area of psychiatry where Dr. Rader achieved great success pioneering programs for recovery from alcoholism, drug addiction and eating disorders (Bulimia and Anorexia), as well as developing the principals of the treatment program at the Betty Ford Recovery Center.[1] For over a decade he was one of the first medical experts in the media.[1] He opened the first HIV program in Latin America, as well as creating a successful research program to eliminate arterial plaque, in association with a major pharmaceutical company in Mexico City.[1] Dr. Rader’s medical interests shifted to Fetal Stem Cell research in 1994 when he spent a year doing due diligence in Eastern Europe and China.[1] Since then he is the only American physician using Fetal Stem Cell therapy and has treated over one thousand five hundred patients.[1] For further information please visit http://www.medra.com.
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