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‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌Global Edition - Today's top story: Stem cell therapies: why 
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                   Global Edition | 17 July 2023







                  Stem cell therapies can be life changing, but they have 
only been approved for a handful of conditions. That doesn’t stop thousands 
of clinics around the world – including in the US, Mexico, India and China – 
offering treatments for conditions ranging from hair loss to Parkinson’s.

                  Some of these clinics touting unproven stem cell 
treatments have been endorsed by celebrities. Often desperate people are 
shelling out thousands of dollars for treatments that can do little good and 
can cause serous harm. Darius Widera, a stem cell biologist, reports.

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live in them, or near them, may have very different criteria to those 
international groups that asses them. And as parts of Europe and the US are 
hit by more heatwaves, what can be done to help deal with them?

                          Clint Witchalls

                        Senior Health Editor, London



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                  Stem cell clinics: they can be expensive, unproven and 
dangerous
                  Darius Widera, University of Reading

                  Over 1,500 clinics are selling unapproved and unproven 
stem cell therapies.


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                          c.. City liveability rankings tell a biased 
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and rental arrangements.

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