The Stem Cell Trekker » New Zealand http://www.stemcellresearchnews.com/SCRNBlog Global treatment and therapy newsblog Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:55:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 NZ Family Spending Nearly $200K On Questionable Mexican Stem Cell Treatments http://www.stemcellresearchnews.com/SCRNBlog/index.php/archives/165 http://www.stemcellresearchnews.com/SCRNBlog/index.php/archives/165#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:52:10 +0000 paulgochs http://www.stemcellresearchnews.com/SCRNBlog/?p=165 A New Zealand family with two children under the age of five suffering from an array of disabling maladies plans to travel to Mexico again to undergo a second round of expensive experimental umbilical cord stem cell treatments. A first round in February cost the family $100,000 — the grandparents’ entire retirement savings. The follow-up treatments will cost $80,000. One of the children, aged 4, suffers from cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and global development delay. The other child, a two-year-old, suffers from septo-optic dysplasia. “The risk in not doing it is waking up at 65 and wondering if you had tried, would it have made a difference,” a grandparent said.

By Rebecca Todd, “Family on $80,000 stem cell mission”, September 22, 2009, © The Press,  Fairfax New Zealand Limited

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