Study of the Diffusion Tensor Imaging for Preclinical Therapeutic Efficacy of Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation in the Treatment of SCI
of the main senter. the basic underlying theme is we don t have good long-term safety indices for chronic common diseases we are treating with major drugs. is it possible, arthur, to test a new drug for side effects that may not appear if many years to come? well, look at it this way, thomas. we test drugs on the healthiest people. people who don t take other medicines. in the real world, people don t take the doses they re supposed to. if they feel good, they skip it. they may take alternative medicines, other things interacting. often times they re older and sicker. we need to say let s test for the real world. not the ideal world. what we really want to know is what happens when we give this to a diabetic who is 85 years old out in the real world?