BEIJING -- They're paralyzed from diving accidents or car crashes, disabled by Parkinson's or blind. With few options at home in America, they search the Internet for experimental treatments -- and often land on Web sites promoting stem-cell treatments in China. These people mortgage their houses. Their hometowns hold fund raisers. They find tens of thousands of dollars so they can travel in hopes of a miracle. But documentation is mostly lacking, and Western doctors warn that patients are serving as guinea pigs in a country that isn't doing the rigorous lab and human tests needed to prove a treatment is safe and effective.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/insight/stories/2008/01/13/Medical_Tourism-China.ART_ART_01-13-08_
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