I wonder what his criteria is for the child being "ready" for the IV form of the injection. 1.6 ml given subcutaneously to a 4 year old seems like a very excessive volume; I wonder what his injection sites look like?
As for the rest of the article, "snake oil" sounds to be a good descriptor of this procedure. If they are injecting the cells into the subcutaneous tissue (as described in the article), even if stem cells do work to treat chronic diseases, I doubt that enough of them would get into the blood to be distributed to the target areas to be effective. And, as the article mentions, they need to be an immunologic match to the person receiving them. I wonder if the clinic in Tijuana did tissue type matching first?
I don't discount that stem cells will some day be of use in treating disease (I have nothing against research into ADULT stem cells), but this sounds very suspicious.
I can understand the family trying this out; who wouldn't try a potential cure, when faced with what they are. It's understandable that they are unable to look at this as objectively as someone not involved with their son, but I think they are wasting their money.
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Mayo clinic has begun using stem cells on terminal patients.
We'll figure this out in the next decade, but the bBrits are way ahead of us.
They learned how to repair Livers. They aren't sure how they did it, but they can do it. Same with restoring sight.
I'm still trying to figure this one out.
snake oil?