Sentences with phrase «of unproven stem cell therapies»

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced an increase in oversight and enforcement of the use of unproven stem cell therapies in the US.

An international group of leading stem cell researchers has issued a statement that specifies concerns about the development and use of unproven stem cell therapies.

The concerns of the scientific community have been heightened by pending legislative action that may allow routine administration of unproven stem cell therapies to patients in Italy.

«It is disconcerting that the Italian Senate has passed amendments that permit the use of unproven stem cell therapies without proper vigilance or proper experiment, reclassifying them as transplants,» commented Bianco.

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When the Italian government tried to ban an unproven stem cell therapy for neurological disorders, the treatment's supporters — families of people receiving the therapy who thought it was working — protested in the street.

«With the rise of new and unproven stem cell treatments, the NFL faces a daunting task of trying to better understand and regulate the use of these therapies in order to protect the health of its players,» said Kirstin Matthews, the Baker Institute fellow in science and technology policy and an expert on ethical and policy issues related to biomedical research and development.

«The adoption of this law may set a dangerous precedent for patients looking to be treated with other unproven stem cell therapies in Europe and other countries,» remarked Hans Clevers, Professor of Molecular Genetics and President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Three months after the Chinese health ministry ramped up its efforts to enforce a ban on the clinical use of unapproved stem - cell treatments, a Nature investigation reveals that businesses around the country are still charging patients thousands of dollars for these unproven therapies.

Stem cell therapies are clinically unproven, the physiology of head trauma remains a mystery, and rest is still the best Rx for pulled muscles.

Within the stem cell field, unproven stem cell therapies, or «treatments» that lack rigorous scientific proof of their safety and effectiveness, have been a growing concern.

While 2016 saw many articles on unproven stem cell therapies, and the controversial use of MRT, there were many positive stories about potential stem cell - derived therapies that are successfully moving into the clinic for testing.

While many important developments impacted the field, two that garnered significant public, political and scientific attention in 2016 were the proliferation of clinics using unproven stem cell «therapies,» and the steps forward in therapeutic modification of human oocytes (unfertilized eggs) through a process called mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT).

«I don't even know what's in the soup,» was the shocking quote from the founder of a chain of clinics highlighted in a recent Associated Press article about the increasing prevalence of clinics offering unproven stem cell therapies.

«Many of these patients have suffered great harm, and even death as a result of using unproven stem cell therapies.