title: The deadly business of an unregulated global stem cell industry.
abstract: In 2016, the Office of the State Coroner of New South Wales released its report into the death of an Australian woman, Sheila Drysdale, who had died from complications of an autologous stem cell procedure at a Sydney clinic. In this report, we argue that Mrs Drysdale's death was avoidable, and it was the result of a pernicious global problem of an industry exploiting regulatory systems to sell unproven and unjustified interventions with stem cells.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Clinical Research Centre, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
authors.forename: Tamra
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-7125-4206
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lysaght
authors.affiliation: Centre for Values Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lipworth
authors.affiliation: Centre for Values Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Tereza
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hendl
authors.affiliation: Centre for Values Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.|Haematology Department, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kerridge
authors.affiliation: Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Clinical Research Centre, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
authors.forename: Tsung-Ling
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Stem Cells Australia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
authors.forename: Megan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Munsie
authors.affiliation: College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Waldby
authors.affiliation: Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Cameron
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Stewart
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003643:Death; D040861:Ethics, Business; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D033161:Government Regulation; D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000191:economics / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D009517:New South Wales; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000191:economics / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D013234:Stem Cells; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000191:economics / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence
keywords: Ethics; Regulation; Stem Cell Research