Stem Cell Therapy in Costa Rica…..
Arizona man: Mark Palmer, due to no stem cell therapy available in US yet, went to Costa Rica for improvement of his life quality.
Mark was 29 when he got paralyzed from the chest down in a 2003 car accident. Five years later, his wife, Celeste, read about stem cell potential to regenerate damaged spinal cord tissue and found a clinic in Costa Rica called the Institute for Cellular Medicine.
Mark got the stem cell therapy at the large expense of 30,000$ believing the claim of the centre for 80% chance of improvement.
But still, stem cell therapy is not an approved treatment but an experimental study.
Hope Mark would get better results and get good quality life in return to large expense of time & money.
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It is amazing how people are having to travel so far to get therapies. I just read about a group that is launching a study of off shore stem cells clinics and their procedures. here is the press release: http://tiny.cc/nHENp
I think it comes to the point of how much these clinics have an interest in the practice of medicine versus marketing. The licensees of Medistem, such as the clinic mentioned in the press release, have worked very hard to publish scientific data and collaborate with various opinion leaders.
Stem Cell therepy sounds very beneficial for different kind of disease. We can benefit from it only after approval But the provided information is very informative and will be very helpful in the near future.