Benefits Risks and Ethics of Stem Cell Research in Parkinsonism

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Subject Area:Computer Science

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Specifically, the article holds a lot of information that will help the psychiatrists to be ethically on point with their Parkinson’s disease patients in case they are doing stem cell transplants. The article talks about the benefits, the risk and the ethical consideration that a psychiatrist should consider upon deciding to put a Parkinson’s disease patient on stem cell therapy. The author put forth the benefits of using stem cell therapy on Parkinson disease as a reduction in the dosages of drugs used in the treatment of the patient, determination of better treatment therapy for the disease in future and relief of the disease symptoms in the patients. The risks that area outlines include the participant are exposed to health risks of stem cell transformation like the formation of tumors, immune rejection, inappropriate cell migration, posts operative infections and hemorrhage during neurosurgery.

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Detailed discussions of the benefits of the stem cell research benefits to the society, the author uses statistics to develop the facts that are presented in the study. The points that the authors talk about are well arranged and well developed by the use of both statistics and scientific facts. The article was short of real-time knowledge of experience, along with the article there was no information from real persona experiences of stem cell technology. However, this does not affect the quality of the study in any way having in mind that stem cell technology is young and getting real-time experiences on its benefits might be a big challenge. In the long run, the article has managed to achieve the intended goal that is to sensitize on the benefits and risks as well as the foundations of ethical considerations to be made in treatment using stem cell technology.

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