The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning after a dozen people were hospitalized with bacterial infections following unapproved stem cell treatments. Consumer Reports has important safety tips ...

Stem cells made a public splash with large research breakthroughs in the 90s and early 2000s. However, since then, stem cells have largely been adopted by the alternative medicine and wellness world ...

In this MedPage Today interview, Leigh Turner, PhD, a professor of health policy and bioethics at the University of California Irvine, unpacks the growing influence of stem cell clinics and the ...

Robert Madson has spent most of his life in the Air Force. After 28 deployments and flying all over the world in cramped cockpits, pain in his back and neck have taken a toll. He's hoping the public ...

Colts star defensive tackle DeForest Buckner traveled to Panama this week to undergo stem cell treament for a neck injury ...

Two small clinical trials revive hope for an old idea: Cells injected into the brain might replace the nerve cells that die in Parkinson’s disease. The studies, published April 16 in Nature, represent ...

Twelve patients became seriously ill after receiving injections that supposedly contained stem cells from umbilical cord blood, according to the Food and Drug Administration, which issued a warning to ...

On July 1, 2025, Florida’s new “Stem Cell Therapy” legislation became effective, adding Fla.Stat. § 458.3245 to Florida’s Medical Practices ...

The promise of stem cell therapy is powerful. Scientists can draw versatile cells from the human body and deliver them to repair injuries and fight disease from the inside out. But not all stem cell ...

T.J. Atchinson is first person with a spinal cord injury to undergo procedure. June 2, 2011 -- Dr. Donald Leslie, medical director at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, has high hopes. "We want to cure ...

A nurse wasn't expecting to be in a hospital bed when she was meant to be riding in the Pan-Mass Challenge, but she was grateful it was for a life-changing reason: stem cell donation. Kristin McIntire ...