Stem Cell Therapy: Hope for Arthritis or Just Hype?

Stem Cell Therapy: Hope for Arthritis or Just Hype?

Experts say this treatment might not be ready for prime time and advisecaution.

Hundreds of stem cell clinics have popped up across the country, many of them hoping to cash in on the enthusiasm surrounding this treatment. “The field, particularly in the past five years, has been overrun with a large number of people who have co-opted the word ‘stem’ and have been using it as a marketing tool to offer therapies to patients that are as yet unproven,” says Dr. Muschler. “That practice is a misuse of the term ‘stem cell’ and amounts to selling false hope.”

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