The current status of clinics providing private practice cell therapy in Japan

A Preliminary Communication investigating the current state of clinics in Japan that offer unproven cell therapies, by Misao Fujita, Taichi Hatta, Reina Ozeki, Akira Akabayashi (Kyoto University and The University of Tokyo, Japan). Little is known about the state of clinics in Japan carrying out unproven cell therapies, and it is therefore difficult to know information such as the types of therapies they provide, and to ascertain the effect that the Act on the Safety of Regenerative Medicine (ASRM), created in Japan in November 2014, may have had in regulating these clinics. In this Preliminary Communication, Misao Fujita, Taichi Hatta,...