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‘Stem cell tourism’ growing trend

By B. D. Colen, Harvard Staff Writer / November 30, 2012

A Harvard panel examined the problem of clinics around the world that provide stem cell treatments for intractable conditions. Although there is no medical evidence of the treatments’ effectiveness, such clinics have drawn thousands of patients from many countries.

Tags: B.D. Colen/Brigham and Women's Hospital/Brock Reeve/Children's Hospital Boston/Cryonics Institute/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/George Q. Daley/Harvard Law School/Harvard Stem Cell Institute/I. Glenn Cohen/Jill Lepore/Massachusetts General Hospital/Medical Tourism/Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy/Robert Ettinger/Stem Cell/Stem cell tourism/Timothy A. Caulfield/University of Alberta
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