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Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images From Central America to Ukraine, unlicensed clinics are offering stem cell therapies as a treatment for autism.  Stem cells are used mainly to treat blood disease. Their effectiveness on autism is unproven and the FDA has not licensed their use for the condition. One prominent clinic providing such treatment is Panama's Stem Cell Institute, whose founder has celebrity backing. Experts told Business insider the clinic gains legitimacy from a program at Duke University researching stem cells and autism. Parents seeking treatment for aut...

A Main Line Neurologist Studies the Intersection of Faith and Science Share Photos by Tessa Marie Images Dr. Andrew Newberg may be a pioneer in his field, but he also understands that, when it comes to spirituality and the brain, it’s OK to say, “I don’t know.” As a child, Dr. Andrew Newberg peppered his father with some serious questions about the concept of reality. “But he was very good at throwing it back at me,” Newberg recalls. So he would have to find the answers on his own. In the months between his graduation from Haverford College and heading to medical school at the Uni...

Shepherd Center in Buckhead has received a big boost from The Marcus Foundation. The center is a nationally-ranked neurorehabilitation hospital that helps restore the lives of patients with spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke, multiple sclerosis, spine and chronic pain and other neuromuscular conditions stemming from a life-altering injury or diagnosis. Dec. 10, the center announced the foundation gave it an $80 million grant that will spearhead its most significant, transformational expansion since it was founded in 1975. Shepherd is one of only a few neurorehabilitation specialty hospi...

Shepherd Center Receives $80 Million Grant from The Marcus Foundation Largest grant in Shepherd Center's history will support the specialized rehabilitation hospital's most significant expansion in 45 years News provided by Share this article Share this article ATLANTA, Dec. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Shepherd Center today announced an $80 million grant from The Marcus Foundation that will be the cornerstone of the specialty rehabilitation hospital's most significant, transformational expansion since its founding in 1975. Shepherd Center is a nationally-ranked neurorehabilitation hospital that...

Marcus has a candidate that he likes and supports, that people are willing to hurt or attempt to hurt financially this business. by the way, it won't hurt bernie marcus or the other rich people or executives. it will hurt veterans that are coming home and getting jobs at home depot, wouldn't it? >> it goes to this idea of boycotting. i'm not going to boycott nike shoes. i am going to buy underarmor. buy from brands and businesses that do good things that you support. if you want to boycott home depot because you don't like what a former owner is doing, that's fine. but for the rest of the amer...