Doctors accused of doing illegal stem-cell trials
Patients in Austria may have been misled.
Alison Abbott
Patients treated outside of clinical trials in the Urology Department (inset) of the Medical University of Innsbruck may not have been insured.Clinical trials led by Hannes Strasser have come under scrutiny by an Austrian ethics committee.MEDICAL UNIV. INNSBRUCK
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.
Next week, a civil court will hear the case of 70-year-old Dieter Bollmann from Berlin, who paid more than €11,000 (US$17,000) for the procedure in 2005. He claims that urologists, led by......
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