Stem Cell Tourist Dies From Treatment In Thailand

Posted by timothy on Friday June 18, 2010 @02:30PM 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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Re:This will be interesting.... by outsider007 · 2010-06-18 18:10 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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Re:This will be interesting.... by hvm2hvm · 2010-06-18 19:32 · 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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