Waaaaaaait a minute. There are plenty of hospitals in the U.S. that perform ADULT stem cell treatments.
Sounds to me like somebody has an agenda to advance here.
Notice how the writer here is VERY careful to not draw any distinctions between the various type of stem cells. They very carefully only refer to them as “Stem Cells”. Pretty much standard operating procedure of the the political Left in the Stem Cell debate. The continually ofuscate between the various types of stem cells.
I smell another “Journalists” rat here.
Last week I saw a documentary on HBO - “Coma” and I highly recommend it.
I found it overall a very balanced and rather hope-filled but very realistic examination of what severely brain-damaged patients and their families and care givers go through. It followed four patients over the course of a year at the Center for Head Injuries at the JFK Medical Center in Edison, NJ. Out of the four patients, one died from complications of his internal and brain injuries, one remained after a year, in a persistent vegetative state with no meaningful signs of improvement but his family chose to continued therapy for him, one young woman went home and eventually attended college classes and one, a young man left deaf because of his brain injury but eventually very cognitive and verbal, after a time in an assisted living home, bought an apartment and married his fiancé who stood by him despite his disabilities.
Contrary to movies and soap operas, coma patients don’t just wake up one day completely normal. It’s often a very slow and painful process and almost all are left with serious mental and physical deficits and disabilities, but many do recover to live a quality life but it’s almost never the life they had before.
It also shed some light on the difference between patients who remain in a “persistent vegetative state” after a year and those who are “minimally conscience” and the subtle and fine line in between those two states. As this documentary showed, sometimes family and even some doctors, see subtitle signs of what they think are improvement when no real improvement actually exists.
After a year those who are in a truly persistent vegetative state don’t ever really improve or come out of that state. While rare, patients in a minimally conscience state after many years can improve. If after seven years, this young man has shown no signs of cognitive abilities or communication, he’s probably in a persistent vegetative state.
I would not trust the Chinese Government with regard to stem cell therapy. I think of all those aborted unwanted girl babies and all the unethical behavior of the Chi-Coms with regard to food and other products in recent months.
If I or a loved one had a severe brain injury I wouldn’t trust the Chinese for a cure.