Unproven stem cell therapies that lure desperate patients around the globe must be condemned and stopped, said international scientists writing guidelines to help people resist the draw of those purported cures.
Treatments being offered today to patients willing to travel to China, Mexico, Thailand and other countries are nothing more than “snake oil,” said George Daley, president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, at the group’s annual meeting in Philadelphia today. A committee of the society is developing recommendations to help patients understand how to evaluate services.
With the exception of blood and bone marrow transplants, “there are no established stem cell therapies,” said Daley, a researcher with Harvard University’s Stem Cell Institute, at a press conference today. “But there is a growing market between clinics purporting to offer cures and desperate patients.”
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