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The procedure has been done tens of thousands of times all over the world, so far it's been incredibly safe.
by willholloway 10y ago
The procedure has been done tens of thousands of times all over the world, so far it's been incredibly safe.
- mrfusion 10y agoAre there other countries that are starting to specialize in this? Do you think we might see a black market form in the us?
- mernster 10y agoThere are companies in the US that will set you up in Mexico or the Cayman islands where the regulations are more favorable (in that they do not exist). It's pretty exciting. FDA is lagging, but it's hard to blame them for caution given all the troubles they've experienced since the 90s.
- willholloway 10y agoThere are still clinics in the US that will perform this procedure, despite FDA pressure. I am not an expert in the specifics of why or how, but I do know that this is reducing the number of doctors treating patients with MSCs and increasing the cost. I don't want to travel to Mexico or Thailand or even Europe to have this simple procedure, and I don't want to wait 10 or 15 years and then have to pay monopolist, proprietary pricing for what would be an inferior technique compared to what a free, open source medical science would inevitably produce.