Stem Cell for MS

[lobelsteve]

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)30169-6/abstract


N=24

Phase 2

Promising. Small study.

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[bedrock]

Cool study.

Glad you considering that stems cells can be medically useful....

 

[lobelsteve]

http://www.closerlookatstemcells.or...ine-things-to-know-about-stem-cell-treatments

 

[hyperalgesia]

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)30169-6/abstract


N=24

Phase 2

Promising. Small study.

Meh...

 

[lobelsteve]

Meh...

Meh is right. But doing real studies on an objective based disease.

Not tooth fairy science of stromal fat knee and spine shots.

 

[Aether2000]

MS has a long history of snake oil, drugs, and devices that are used to bring remission, all without randomized controlled trials. Why? Because the history of MS is in many patients exacerbation of symptoms followed by remission. These experimental treatments are not used during the remission phase- only when the disease symptoms worsen to the point the panicked patients will do anything to avoid worsening. Therefore they try the concoctions, potions, and machines and voila! They improve. But of course they were going to improve anyway. So I am profoundly skeptical of any therapy that is touted for MS.

 

[Ducttape]

Stem cell transplant weasles its way in the conversation even as we mourn the death of another sports great (no, not Ali)

http://time.com/4364238/gordie-howe-stem-cell-treatment/

 

[Doctodd]

I guess Dr. Burt at Northwestern is a fraud?

 

[Aether2000]

Any research on stem cells is an advancement, but it all has to be taken in context of the disease studied and whether the disease lends itself to clinically relevant improvement that is solely due to stem cells and nothing else. MS is just a poor model for this.