Stem Cell Clinical Trials | Stem Cell Research

Stem cell science is commonly subject to widely varying treatment at the hands of the media and this is due, in part, to a poor understanding in general of the importance of clinical trials and proper research in the pursuit of knowledge prior to application of a new treatment modality. Clinics offering stem cell therapy often rely on the vulnerability of many patients and their poor understanding of science in order to bamboozle them with faux-science and convince them of the unproven merits of their expensive treatments.

Who amongst us is likely to confess ignorance when facing a seemingly qualified doctor in a hospital-like setting discussing matters often of life and death? To ask for clinical evidence and raw data of a treatments efficacy is unlikely to get you very far in most cases, and even if the data were provided would you be any better equipped to make an informed choice about medical treatment? What is a clinical trial, how do they help us in real life, and can they be dangerous?

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Stem Cell Clinical Trials | Stem Cell Research