Stem cell hype
Many clinics around the world offer unproven treatments, while genuine therapies are slowly making their way through trials. Anthony King reports
Search for stem cell clinics online and you will easily find them, all over the world, offering to treat a raft of health problems. Many target sports injuries, osteoarthritis and anti-ageing, but some advertise cures for heart disease, Parkinson’s disease and spinal cord injury. The problem: these are unproven therapies.
There are legitimate treatments being studied, but most have yet to reach patients and are at various stages of the clinical trial process.