Risky, controversial, and unproven stem cell therapies are attracting the attention of hundreds of neurologists across the U.S.
A team of neurologists has released a new study that reveals their fellow doctors are frequently asked about these procedures by desperate patients.
According to Gizmodo, many doctors among the 200 surveyed in the study are also seeing patients with serious complications from stem cell therapy.
Such complications include seizures, infections, spinal tumors, stroke, paralysis, bloodborne infections like hepatitis C, and several deaths.
In one case, a tumor had cells that didn’t seem to belong to the patient, suggesting the donor’s cells had somehow turned cancerous.
In other cases, the therapy seemed to worsen the progression of the disease it was meant to treat.