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Stem Cells and Management of Healthcare Costs: Stem Cell-Based Treatments and the Societal Balance Sheet

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Michelle Wedemeyer, Samuel Bederman S and Oswald Steward

Stem Cells and Management of Healthcare Costs: Stem Cell-Based Treatments and the Societal Balance Sheet

Proposed stem cell based therapies have the potential to be highly costly. In an era of shrinking research budgets and ballooning healthcare costs, this article discusses the feasibility of stem cell based therapies for the following conditions in light of the concept of Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs): 1) hematologic malignancy, 2) osteoarthritis, 3) type I diabetes, 4) amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and 5) spinal cord injury. These case studies illustrate the following major contr... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2325-9620.1000125

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