{"id":16410,"date":"2008-01-05T23:33:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T06:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/05\/china-offers-unproven-medical-treatments-christopher-bodeen-and-alan-scher-zagier\/"},"modified":"2008-01-05T23:33:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T06:33:04","slug":"china-offers-unproven-medical-treatments-christopher-bodeen-and-alan-scher-zagier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/china-offers-unproven-medical-treatments-christopher-bodeen-and-alan-scher-zagier\/","title":{"rendered":"China Offers Unproven Medical Treatments &#8211; Christopher Bodeen and Alan Scher Zagier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/display_temp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"display_temp.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/display_temp-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWith the government cracking down last year on <a href=\"http:\/\/english.chosun.com\/w21data\/html\/news\/200707\/200707050028.html\">easy organ transplants for foreigners<\/a>, the Associated Press comes out with a detailed look at the next biggest trend in medical tourism to China: stem cell treatment for desperate nerve disorder patients. Via Newsday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Jim Savage, a Houston man with paralysis from a spinal cord injury, says he can move his right arm. Penny Thomas of Hawaii says her Parkinson&#8217;s tremors are mostly gone. The parents of 6-year-old Rylea Barlett of Missouri, born with an optical defect, say she can see.<\/p>\n<p>But documentation is mostly lacking, and Western doctors warn that patients are serving as guinea pigs in a country that isn&#8217;t doing the rigorous lab and human tests that are needed to prove a treatment is safe and effective. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/health\/wire\/sns-ap-medical-tourism-china,0,6833442.story\">[Full Text]<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also Danwei&#8217;s first post on the topic in 2005: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danwei.org\/internet\/stem_cell_treatment_in_china_t.php\">&#8220;Stem cell treatment in China: the first glowing report.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n[Image: Staff at a Beike stem cell facility in Hangzhou display an unknown treatment substance, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beikebiotech.com\/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2&#038;Itemid=23&#038;page=inline&#038;id=103&#038;catid=6&#038;limitstart=16\">Beike Biotech website<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the government cracking down last year on easy organ transplants for foreigners, the Associated Press comes out with a detailed look at the next biggest trend in medical tourism to China: stem cell treatment for desperate nerve disorder patients. 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