Sentences with phrase «unproven stem cell therapies in»
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced an increase in oversight and enforcement of the use of unproven stem cell therapies in the US.
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«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.
ROME — The controversy surrounding an unproven stem cell therapy in Italy may be drawing to a close.
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Yet clinics offering unproven, and sometimes dangerous, stem cell treatments to eager patients have proliferated around the country in recent years — even without the state law, there are at least 71 clinics selling unapproved stem cell therapies in Texas alone.
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 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.
Patients who participate in testing experimental stem cell therapies, whether in regulated clinical trials or from clinics offering unproven therapies, are pioneers.
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.