Warning: Government Listing Of Clinical Trials Doesn’t Disclose Costs To Patients

Last summer, Linda Smith learned she was losing significant cartilage in her knees, a consequence of her lifelong love of skiing, running and ultimate frisbee.

Diagnosed with osteoarthritis, she wanted to avoid surgery and was eager to consider alternatives.

So the 56-year-old Morgan Hill, Calif., resident embarked on a search for clinical trials, which test potential treatments on human subjects. She scoured the government-run website, ClinicalTrials.gov, focusing on a form of stem cell therapy — a promising but unproven approach for her condition. Read article here…..

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Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

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