Neurologists Warn against Potentially Dangerous ‘Stem Cell Tourism’

September 3, 2015

(Fox News) – Neurologists at The Ohio State University are calling on doctors to educate their patients about scientifically unproven stem cell treatments that they say more Americans with incurable diseases are finding online and traveling overseas or across the country for. In a paper published Monday in the journal JAMA Neurology, the researchers write that “stem cell tourism” is a growing problem among patients with medical conditions like multiple sclerosis (MS) and Lou Gehrig’s disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, who are willing to try potentially harmful therapy in hopes of curing their disease