Supreme Court of India
Yash Charitable Trust v. Union of India
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What the Court ordered
We are of the considered view that all stem cell research involving human participants must necessarily be in a clinical trial setting.
Judgment, page 95
In brief
The petitioners — an NGO, a developmental paediatrician, a medical ethics society and a parent whose child had received such treatment — alleged that numerous clinics, hospitals and institutions across India were advertising, prescribing and administering stem cell 'therapy' as a commercial treatment or cure for Autism Spectrum Disorder, charging substantial fees. It was not disputed that no proven cure for ASD exists, and the ICMR's Evidence Based Status of Stem Cell Therapy for Human Diseases, 2021, the National Guidelines for Stem Cell Research, 2017 and the NMC Ethics and Medical Registration Board's expert committee report dated 06.12.2022 all concluded that the evidence was insufficient and that such therapy should not be offered as routine or standard care.…
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