In addition to all of the standard procedures that have made Thailand a popular medical tourism destination there have been some treatments that were not available in the west that drew people to the Kingdom. In the U.S. in particular regulatory hurdles mean that promising treatments that have not yet gone through lengthy clinical trials […]

Discover Magazine’s blog has a story about a woman who died after receiving stem cell therapy in Thailand in an attempt to treat a severe kidney disease. The woman went into decline soon after her treatment. Within three months she required dialysis, within a year one kidney had failed, and within two years she had […]

Thailand’s National Innovation Agency announced success in treating foot wounds of diabetes patients with their own stem cells. Several diabetes patients, aged from 50 to 72, with chronic wounds on their feet, especially difficult in the case of diabetics, were injected with stem cells extracted from their own blood and the wounds completely healed in […]

Thailand’s Board of Investment (BOI) has approved the Israeli-Thai stem cell therapy company TheraVitae for special investor privileges under the BOI’s foreign investment program. Mr Narin Apichairuk, president of TheraVitae, says this will allow them to open a laboratory near Bangkok. Currently adult stem cells are extracted from patients’ blood and then sent to a […]