The stem cell treatment hysteria for knee arthritis

Suspect Stem Cell Treatments Touted for Knee Arthritis (Medscape)
Hundreds of clinics in the United States are selling stem cell treatments for knee osteoarthritis without solid evidence of their claims, researchers warn.
“People’s expectations have gotten ahead of the science,” said investigator George Muschler, MD, from the Cleveland Clinic, and orthopedic surgeons must be prepared to help their patients evaluate these claims.
“The quality of the literature is relatively sparse,” he told Medscape Medical News.
In a previous study that Muschler was involved in, investigators conducted a sys...