Episode 23: What's the Deal with Stem Cell Therapy
2 Docs Talk: The podcast about healthcare, the science of medicine and everything in between. - A podcast by Kendall Britt, MD and Amy Rogers, MD
Stem cell research, regenerative medicine, or whatever you want to call it, was a real hot button issue for a while. The policitics around it have cooled somewhat, but controversy remains even if the media isn't reporting on it. What have we learned from stem cell research, what advances have been made, and can we really trust it? We get in to all this and more on this week's episode. Resources: ISCCR Draft Guidelines for Stem Cell Science Translation A nice summary of where the FDA got involved with Stem Cell therapy and who many of the players are
