Access
This article is part of Nature's premium content.
Published online 30 April 2008 | 453, 6-7 (2008) | doi:10.1038/453006a
News
Doctors accused of doing illegal stem-cell trials
Patients in Austria may have been misled.
An apparently successful stem-cell treatment for urinary incontinence is now being questioned after it has emerged that clinical trials for the therapy may have been done illegally.
Patients who received the stem-cell procedure in operations at a hospital in Innsbruck, Austria, are now taking legal action against the hospital's management, in a scandal that goes right to the heart of the country's health ministry.
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
Comments
Reader comments are usually moderated after posting. If you find something offensive or inappropriate, you can speed this process by clicking 'Report this comment' (or, if that doesn't work for you, email webadmin@nature.com). For more controversial topics, we reserve the right to moderate before comments are published.
Due to the legally sensitive nature of this story, we will not be hosting comments here.