Are stem cell treatments scams?

Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cell Scams: They're pulling your cord. September 2012. Doug Sipp. Doug Sipp is the founder of the Stem Cell Treatment Monitor. Great hopes and anticipation have surrounded umbilical cord blood-derived cells since their first clinical use in the 1980s. read more

The facts: Stem cell therapies may offer the potential to treat diseases or conditions for which few treatments exist. Sometimes called the body’s “master cells,” stem cells are the cells that develop into blood, brain, bones, and all of the body’s organs. read more

The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), a group of established stem cell researchers concerned with the proliferation of unproven treatments, has issued a patient handbook on stem cell therapies. read more

But that’s not the norm: Patients don’t have to travel to Mexico or India to get stem cell therapy, as they would for many other questionable treatments. There are clinics even in rural states like Kansas and Nebraska. read more