Patients Lose Sight After Stem Cells Are Injected Into Their Eyes -
By DENISE GRADYMARCH 15, 2017
Three women suffered severe, permanent eye damage after stem cells were injected into their eyes, in an unproven treatment at a
loosely regulated clinic in Florida, doctors reported in an article published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.
website has a page that warns “the hope that patients have for cures not yet available may leave them vulnerable
to unscrupulous providers of stem-cell treatments that are illegal and potentially harmful.”
article in The New England Journal of Medicine suggested
that adverse events from stem-cell treatments “are probably much more common than is appreciated, because there is no reporting requirement when these therapies are administered outside clinical investigations.”
Like the Florida patients, people who consult clinicaltrials.gov may assume that the studies listed there have been approved by the F. D.A.
