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Dr. Jazrawi Quoted In Men's Journal

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Dr. Laith Jazrawi was quoted in the August 2013 edition of Men's Journal on his thoughts about using stem cells in older joints.  His excerpt is below:

  • Dr. Laith Jazrawi, the head of sports medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, and one of the few academic orthopedists using the one-day stem-cell procedure — the one permitted in the U.S. — can’t disguise an admiration for clinicians willing to go out on a limb for medical progress.
  • “As a scientist, it excites me that they’re doing these things,” he says. He thinks the multiday processed stem cells “are probably going to be safe” — cancers have yet to pop up in the animal-research literature. But he sounds the academic’s familiar refrain: “If the Colorado group’s results are so good, why haven’t they published anything on it?”

The usual rejoinder from independent clinicians is that they can’t afford to.

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