Unproven stem cell therapy causes three women to go blind

Miami (AFP) – An unproven stem cell therapy that involves extracting a patient’s fat tissue and injecting it into the eyes has caused three US women to go blind, a report said Wednesday.
The women, aged between 72 and 88, were treated in Florida in 2015 for a progressive eye disease called macular degeneration, said the report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
They thought they were enrolling in a legitimate clinical trial, having found it under the title: “Study to asse