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  1. The involvement of Canadian physicians in promoting and providing unproven and unapproved stem cell interventions.Ubaka Ogbogu, Jenny Du & Yonida Koukio - 2018 - BMC Medical Ethics 19 (1):32.
    Direct to consumer offerings of unproven stem cell interventions is a pressing scientific and policy issue. According to media reports, providers of SCIs have emerged in Canada. This study provides the first systematic scan of Canadian providers and associated trends and claims. The study sample consisted of 15 websites retrieved from a Google™ keyword search. The websites were assessed by a rater using a peer-reviewed coding frame that queried treatment location, stem cell offerings, treatment claims, supporting evidence, and legal and (...)
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  • Unproven stem cell-based interventions & physicians’ professional obligations; a qualitative study with medical regulatory authorities in Canada.Amy Zarzeczny & Marianne Clark - 2014 - BMC Medical Ethics 15 (1):75.
    The pursuit of unproven stem cell-based interventions is an emerging issue that raises various concerns. Physicians play different roles in this market, many of which engage their legal, ethical and professional obligations. In Canada, physicians are members of a self-regulated profession and their professional regulatory bodies are responsible for regulating the practice of medicine and protecting the public interest. They also provide policy guidance to their members and discipline members for unprofessional conduct.
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  • What's Missing? Discussing Stem Cell Translational Research in Educational Information on Stem Cell “Tourism”.Zubin Master, Amy Zarzeczny, Christen Rachul & Timothy Caulfield - 2013 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 41 (1):254-268.
    Stem cell tourism is a form of medical tourism in which patients travel to receive unproven or untested stem cell-based interventions for many different diseases and conditions. A few studies indicate that patients and the public have several reasons for seeking these treatments for themselves or for their loved ones. Among these are the feeling of not having any other clinical options left, distrust of or frustration with their home country’s health care system, and a perception that their home country (...)
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