[extropy-chat] Pioneering medical treatment in China

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This very interesting development in China has been in the news for a
couple of days.
Dr Huang Hongyun cultivates the cells of aborted foetuses and injects
them into the brains and spines of his patients. His method is
controversial, but his results have led hundreds of westerners to his
Beijing surgery.
Some have been in wheelchairs for years and believe he can help them
walk; others are kept alive by respirators, yet hope he can make them
breathe. The voiceless have heard he can bring them speech. The
terminally ill seek nothing less than more life.
They come in search of one of the most pioneering - and controversial
- medical procedures on the planet: the injection of cells from
aborted foetuses into the brains and spines of the sick. And the
object of their faith is a Chinese surgeon who spent many of his
university years labouring as a peasant and is now conducting
trial-and-error experiments on live subjects despite his research
being rejected by the western medical establishment.
Dr Huang Hongyun promises nothing. He claims no miracle cure. He
admits he cannot fully explain his results. All he knows, and all he
tells his patients, is that his method often works, that the results
speak for themselves.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1363260,00.html
Video coverage: http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianfilms/china