If you were to read many of the adverts for stem cell therapy that you can find online, you would be forgiven for believing that stem cell therapy is nothing short of a panacea. “True stem cell therapy is extremely complex because you have to refine the type of cell you’re going to give to the organ it will be used in, and there are different challenges in different organs. “The sad thing is that there are genuinely quite exciting applications of stem cell therapy that will be possible in the future. “My own work is in the treatment of arthritis with stem cell therapy, and that’s also going well. “The harsh reality is that you can’t recommend that a patient has stem cell therapy for anything that isn’t directly authorised.

Source: The Irish Times June 24, 2020 04:52 UTC