Stem Cell Treatments Offering Hope for MS Patients

There’s a lot of hype about stem cell therapy and how it can stop multiple sclerosis (MS) in its tracks.

But it’s taking a long time for stem cell therapy to make waves in the United States despite some success in other parts of the world.

The U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are touting stem cell therapy. But it has yet to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Two Americans stand out in the race to use stem cell therapy to treat people who have MS.

One is Dr. Richard Burt, chief of the division of medicine-immunotherapy and autoimmune diseases at Northwestern University. He’s been a stem cell therapy advocate for more than 30 years.