A clinic in Florida that promoted stem cell therapies for macular degeneration caused patients to go blind, severely setting back the field. — Whalespan
A clinic in Florida that promoted stem cell therapies for macular degeneration caused patients to go blind, severely setting back the field.
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We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“there was this clinic in — Florida a few years ago was — touting stem cell therapies for macular degeneration injected some stem cells into these patients eyes and they went blind really quickly and they were not blind prior to the injections that to my understanding caused a severe setback to the whole field”