MADISON, Wis.– A CBS News eight-month investigation found a University of Wisconsin-educated doctor promised cures that science could not provide. Dr. Dan Ecklund received his medical degree from UW in 1987, but his medical license was revoked in 2005, according to state records in Alabama. On Sunday night, “60 Minutes” accused Ecklund of peddling fake stem cell therapies to a family whose son has cerebral palsy, a disease with no known cure. With so much research done on potential therapies and stem cells in Madison, local scientists are quick to distance themselves from Ecklund. Still, Dr. David Gamm, an ophthalmologist and stem cell researcher at UW, said similar attempts at fraud are all too common.
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