Australia has among the world’s highest concentrations of stem cell businesses advertising medical and cosmetic treatments online, despite a lack of evidence about the efficacy or safety of many of those procedures, a study has found.
A senior author on the paper, Prof John Rasko from the University of Sydney, has called on Australia’s medical regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration(TGA), to close a loophole that, he said, was allowing the businesses to promote and offer potentially ineffective or harmful treatments.
The Guardian
Tags: australia, bioethics, costs, evidence, intervention, risks, snake oil, stem cell
