Three Women Blinded by Unproven Stem Cell Treatments
The word &quot;treatment&quot; in the headline made me think that this was some kind of formal study.<p>But in reality this is literally some Florida crank lab selling a shitty third-party procedure that takes adult stem sells derived from fat tissue, and despite the fact that the &quot;safety and effectiveness of this procedure is unknown, all three patients received injections in both eyes.&quot;!!!<p>To be clear: this was not a test, this was not a study, this was literally three old ladies being sold on a completely unproven &quot;stem cell&quot; procedure by a Florida for-profit clinic.<p>And apparently there are 100s of these clinics being run all over America with essentially no evidence &#x2F; clinical trials &#x2F; etc behind their treatments:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;health-shots&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;05&#x2F;491372940&#x2F;researchers-question-safety-value-of-untested-stem-cell-treatments" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;health-shots&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;05&#x2F;49137294...</a><p>I remain stunned at the things that are heavily regulated in America vs not.