Fetal Cell Implants: What We Learned.

The Hastings Center Report | May 1, 2001| | Copyright

The results are now in from a controversial clinical trial involving the injection of cells obtained from aborted fetuses into the brains of persons suffering from Parkinsonism (NEJM 344, no. 10 (2001): 710-14). Of the forty subjects, twenty had received fetal cells via injections through four holes drilled through their skulls. Twenty got sham surgery--holes, but no injections. Of the subjects who received fetal cells, none reported any benefit in the control of their symptoms.

Physicians who did not know which patients had received injections did detect some slight ...

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