Some caution on the timescale for stem cell therapies
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 10:25 am
As usual with MS any good news (last week's news about stem cells turning into myelin) has to be balanced with some not so good news. Stem cell therapies are some way off.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/MS ... sage/21106
But there is plenty of research going on outside the States, including research on using ones own stem cells (which I assume should be safer and have less ethical problems). So hopefully things may move at a faster pace.
I'm all for safety, but if new therapies are going to take ten or twenty years then there's a massive number of us who will never benefit. Also, there must be individuals with more severe MS who would quite happily be the guinea pigs for early trials given possible improvements - I would if I was in that situation.
Bromley
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/MS ... sage/21106
But there is plenty of research going on outside the States, including research on using ones own stem cells (which I assume should be safer and have less ethical problems). So hopefully things may move at a faster pace.
I'm all for safety, but if new therapies are going to take ten or twenty years then there's a massive number of us who will never benefit. Also, there must be individuals with more severe MS who would quite happily be the guinea pigs for early trials given possible improvements - I would if I was in that situation.
Bromley