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Stem Cell Tourist Dies From Treatment In Thailand

Posted by timothy on from the pays-your-money-takes-your-chances dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last week, news that Costa Rica was shutting down a large stem cell clinic sparked a debate here on Slashdot about whether patients should be allowed to take the risks that come with untested treatments. Now comes news of what can happen when patients go looking for a shortcut. A patient suffering from an autoimmune disease that was destroying her kidneys went to a Bangkok clinic, where doctors injected her own adult stem cells into her kidneys. Now she's dead, and a postmortem revealed that the sites of injection had weird growths — 'tangled mixtures of blood vessels and bone marrow cells.' Researchers say the treatment almost certainly killed her."

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  1. Could have been worse by Vinegar+Joe · · Score: 2, Funny

    She could have ended up like Kwai Chang Caine.

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  2. Uh... by jav1231 · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's dangerous enough to inject things INTO someone in Thailand as a tourist, let alone be the one injected into! :o

  3. Re:Aim for the real problem. by Pikoro · · Score: 2, Funny

    Athiest?

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  4. Re:This will be interesting.... by outsider007 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think he's talking about weed. Weed makes Big Pharma paranoid.

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  5. Re:This will be interesting.... by outsider007 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Drug companies fight HARD to make sure that while the drug is patented...
    Was that a veiled viagra reference?

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  6. Re:This will be interesting.... by hvm2hvm · · Score: 5, Funny

    >> faith healers
    >> thank god it didn't come to me making that kind of decision
    I don't get it, which side are you on?

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