Doctors Skirt FDA To Heal Humans With Stem Cells
For many years, countless individuals in the US have had to watch with envy as dogs and horses with joint and bone injuries have been cured with stem cell procedures that the FDA has refused to approve for humans.
Now, in an exciting development, Regenerative Sciences Inc. in Colorado has found a way to skirt the FDA and provide these same stem cell treatments to humans. The results have been stunning, allowing many patients to walk or run who have not been able to do so for years.
There’s no surgery required, just a needle to extract and then re-inject the cells where they are needed. There has always been a lot of hype around stem cells, but this is the real deal. Real humans are getting real treatment that works, and we should all hope that more companies will begin offering this procedure in other states soon.
These techniques may offer hope to patients, and usher in a new wave of medical breakthroughs, redefinitions of disease states, and significant increases in longevity.
However, there are concerns about neoplastic growth from stem cells. As the process uses older cells to create “autologous” transplants (cell lines that start from the given subject and are re-injected back into that subject), if the cells are damaged, there could be uncontrolled growth and endanger the patients instead.
More safety testing is needed before stem cell technology can be implemented on a large scale.
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