Some mainstream hospitals also offer stem cell and similar procedures, sometimes in the context of a research trial, sometimes not - earning them the same criticisms as the clinics. Hyun says there’s no rational reason to try a stem cell therapy offered by one of these clinics, which are thought to number more than 700 across the country - though he understands why desperate patients and families might be willing to take a risk for the promise of effective treatment. Other reports blame stem cell procedures, mostly performed outside the United States, for tumors, infections, and brain inflammation. Several other women treated elsewhere for macular degeneration were also blinded.
Offering these procedures “violates the standards of medical practice,” says Insoo Hyun, PhD, a bioethicist at Harvard and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, OH.īerman says the procedures that he offers are safe but adds that his clinics stopped providing stem cell shots into the eyeball after a woman treated for macular degeneration, a cause of age-related vision loss, had retinal detachments and went blind.
Stem cell therapies often involve taking cells from one area, like the abdomen, spinning them in a centrifuge to concentrate the cells, and then reinjecting them into another part of the body, like the knee. And the procedures, which involve moving cells from one part of the body to another, aren’t really even stem cell therapies, according to scientists at Harvard University, New York University, the University of California, Davis, Arizona State University, the University of Minnesota, and others. In many cases, there’s no logical scientific reason to think they might work, they say. The treatments, which often cost $5,000 to $20,000, have no proof of safety or effectiveness. Sports figures have also publicized the therapies.īut a number of stem cell scientists say that these and other self-described stem cell clinics are misleading the public.
That’s the number of patients he says his 100-plus affiliated clinics have treated for conditions like knee pain, erectile dysfunction, asthma, congestive heart failure, stroke, and Parkinson’s disease. 13, 2019 - Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Mark Berman says he can offer 12,000 reasons people should consider getting stem cell therapy at one of the clinics he co-founded across the country.
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