Patients Lose Sight After Stem Cells Are Injected Into Their Eyes -<br />By DENISE GRADYMARCH 15, 2017<br />Three women suffered severe, permanent eye damage after stem cells were injected into their eyes, in an unproven treatment at a<br />loosely regulated clinic in Florida, doctors reported in an article published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.<br />website has a page that warns “the hope that patients have for cures not yet available may leave them vulnerable<br />to unscrupulous providers of stem-cell treatments that are illegal and potentially harmful.”<br />article in The New England Journal of Medicine suggested<br />that adverse events from stem-cell treatments “are probably much more common than is appreciated, because there is no reporting requirement when these therapies are administered outside clinical investigations.”<br />Like the Florida patients, people who consult clinicaltrials.gov may assume that the studies listed there have been approved by the F. D.A.
