This week Health Canada issued a public policy position on that point. This means that they must be authorized by Health Canada to ensure that they are safe and effective before they can be offered to Canadians," Health Canada said in a news release. And so far Health Canada has not approved any of the direct-to-consumer treatments. University of Minnesota researcher Leigh Turner says it's time for Health Canada to take meaningful action. "They don't behave like stem cells," Michael Rudnicki, stem cell scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, told CBC News last September when we first wrote about the name controversy.

Source: CBC News May 18, 2019 12:56 UTC