Controversial Stem-Cell Company Moves Treatment out of U.S.
Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 14:31
in Health & Medicine
US citizens who had pinned their hopes on a company being able to offer stem-cell treatments close to home will now need to travel a little farther. Celltex Therapeutics of Houston, Texas, stopped treating patients in the United States last year following a warning from regulators. A 25 January e-mail to Celltex customers indicates that the firm will now follow in the footsteps of many other companies offering unproven stem-cell therapies and send its patients abroad for treatment -- but only to Mexico. [More]