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NEW YORK – Consumers should be wary of Web sites from clinics that offer stem cell treatments, says a study that found a lack of firm medical evidence to back up their claims. The...
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- News Source: Uinta County News | 10 months agoMany diseases involve the death of cells that the body cannot naturally replace...Other times it is slow and inexorable, as in Alzheimer's disease. The great promise of stem cells—the body's equivalent of renewable energy—is that they could be...
- News Source: Uinta County News | 11 months agoIn the United States, nearly one million people are affected by Parkinson's disease, with one person diagnosed every nine minutes. That means that in the time it takes you to boil pasta, make a pot of coffee, or write a quick e-mail, one more person...
- News Source: Androscoggin News | 11 months agoRogue stem cell clinics could be exploiting hope and ignorance for some patients. That's why the International Society for Stem Cell Research released guidelines for researchers and regulators and a guidebook for patients which criticized some...
- News Source: Canada.com | 11 months agoBut there is scant evidence the therapies work, Timothy Caulfield and his colleagues at the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta note in a report released Wednesday, along with a call for a crackdown on "rogue" stem cell operations. The...
- News Source: Androscoggin News | 11 months agoEnter the term in a search and Google pulls up a number of paid-for direct-to-consumer ads at the top of the findings. “Current research has shown that these cells can potentially be used to treat spinal cord injuries (regeneration of neural tissue)...
- News Source: Macleans | 11 months agoCanadians should be wary of foreign clinics that use websites to promote stem cell therapies for a wide range of medical conditions, researchers warn, pointing to a dearth of scientific evidence to support claims the treatments work...Stem cells are...
- News Source: Uinta County News | 11 months agoExpensive, sham stem cell therapies are being hawked directly to desperate patients over the Internet, experts say. In response, the leading organization of stem cell scientists on Wednesday issued guidelines to steer research in the field toward...
- News Source: The Globe & Mail | 11 months agoA Canadian study says consumers should be wary of web-based clinics that offer unproved stem-cell therapies for numerous diseases. The study by the University of Alberta found that such clinics present treatments as safe and effective with no medical...
- News Source: Times Online | 11 months agoPatients with debilitating diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease risk being exploited by websites offering expensive stem-cell treatments, scientists said today. An investigation of 19 companies that promote such therapies has...
- News Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer | 11 months agoConsumers should be wary of Web sites from clinics that offer stem cell treatments, says a study that found a lack of firm medical evidence to back up their claims. The Web sites in the study generally portrayed their therapies as safe, effective and...
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