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Stem-Cell Black Market and India Quackery

SCIENTIFIC FRINGES of DELHI India -- Dr. Shroff is one player in the rapidly expanding world of stem-cell treatment, much of which takes advantage of regulatory gaps in countries such as China and Mexico to offer untested treatments. Research from the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta in 2008 found 29 centres around the world using the Internet to market stem-cell therapy, at an average cost of $21,500 (Can.) per patient. But what is striking about India is that the regulatory gap (which appears to reflect a mix of ignorance and inefficiency on the part of government) means that practitioners such as Dr. Shroff who work on the fringes are infuriating a community of researchers, many based in some of the country's top scientific institutes.
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Posted by Editor at March 20, 2010 12:40 AM