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Journal Article
Stem-cell ruling riles researchers
2013
Overview
A month ago, an investigatory television programme, The Hyena, reported that children with incurable diseases such as spinal muscular atrophy were being denied supposedly important treatment, and Italian show-business personalities joined the call to relax rules on stem-cell treatment. Last May, a delegation including representatives of the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) and the ISS, the health ministry's national institute, visited the Brescia lab and reported chaotic conditions: ethics-committee approvals had been based on inadequate information, and there were no detailed protocols or patient follow-up, for example.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group
Subject
/ 692/700
/ Compassionate Use Trials - adverse effects
/ Compassionate Use Trials - ethics
/ Compassionate Use Trials - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Disease
/ Humanities and Social Sciences
/ Humans
/ Infant
/ Italy
/ news
/ Patients
/ Science
/ Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood - therapy
/ Stem Cell Transplantation - adverse effects
/ Stem Cell Transplantation - ethics
