{"id":13737,"date":"2019-08-05T08:18:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T12:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13737"},"modified":"2019-08-05T08:18:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T12:18:41","slug":"superstar-athletes-popularize-unproven-stem-cell-procedures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13737","title":{"rendered":"Superstar Athletes Popularize Unproven Stem Cell Procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Liz Szabo for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Baseball superstar Max Scherzer \u2014 whose back injury has prevented him from\u00a0pitching for the Washington Nationals\u00a0since he last played\u00a0 on July 25 \u2014 is the latest in a\u00a0long list\u00a0of\u00a0professional athletes\u00a0to embrace unproven stem cell injections in an attempt to accelerate their recovery.<\/p>\n<p>But many doctors and ethicists worry that pro athletes \u2014 who have played a\u00a0key role in popularizing stem cells\u00a0\u2014 are\u00a0misleading the public\u00a0into thinking that the costly, controversial shots are an accepted, approved treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sends a signal to all the fans out there that stem cells have more value than they really do,\u201d said Dr. James Rickert, president of the Society for Patient Centered Orthopedics, which advocates for high-quality care. \u201cIt\u2019s extremely good PR for the people selling this kind of thing. But there\u2019s no question that this is an\u00a0unproven treatment.\u201d\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/superstar-athletes-popularize-unproven-stem-cell-procedures\/\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Liz Szabo for Kaiser Health News) Baseball superstar Max Scherzer \u2014 whose back injury has prevented him from\u00a0pitching for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13738,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13737\/revisions\/13738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}