US stem cell clinics, patient safety, and the FDA.
Turner L.
Prospective Study on Hip, published in Trends Mol Med (2015) — summary generated from the PubMed abstract.
Early human evidence such as case series or small samples is exploring possible benefits.
- Level A · Stronger Clinical Evidence
- Level B · Emerging clinical evidence with positive signals
- Level C · Early human research exploring benefits
- Level D · Scientific groundwork from lab and animal studies
- Emerging · Emerging topic under active research
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- Study type
- Prospective Study
- Journal
- Trends Mol Med (2015)
- Country
- England
- Reported sample size
- —
- Source database
- PubMed
- PMID
- 25945404
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.molmed.2015.02.008
Abstract (original English)
Scholarship on patients accessing unproven stem cell interventions is dominated by research addressing 'stem cell tourism' to such countries as China, India, Mexico, and the Ukraine. However, clinics marketing 'adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cell treatments' are proliferating across the USA. These businesses typically claim to operate in compliance with federal regulations, but careful review of their commercial practices suggests that such clinics are marketing unapproved and noncompliant biological drugs.
What this study does not prove
- • This study does not prove SVF is an approved treatment or a replacement for standard care.
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