Even after FDA warnings, stem cell clinics still turning hope into hype
Most stem cell therapy remains in the realm of experimental, not in hard science. That hasn't stopped some clinic doctors from portraying it as something akin to the Fountain of Youth or the hands of Christ.
Loy Roper thought it would help his aching back, aggravated by more than two decades in the homebuilding business. So he forked over $9,300 to a clinic for a stem cell injection.
But he says a nurse stuck the needle in a place on his body that had little or nothing to do with easing his degenerative disc disease.
“When you go to their seminar, and they advertise all in the newspapers and all that stuff, they make it sound like it’s going to be a professional doctor procedure,” Roper said. “What they portrayed and what they actually did was a totally different thing.”
Roper isn't the only one with concerns about how stem cell clinics advertise their services. Read about what some clinics are up to, what the FDA is doing, and what an AJC investigation of the local market found at MyAJC.com.
