By Rick Mayer – WUSF-NPR – Health News Florida

The measure authorizes physicians to perform the treatments for orthopedics, wound care or pain management with strict requirements to ensure safety and ethics.

Before the annual session ended last week, the Florida Legislature approved a measure to improve access to some stem cell therapies that have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

If enacted, the bill (SB 1768) would authorize physicians to perform the treatments, provided they are within scope of practice and focus on orthopedics, wound care or pain management with strict require,

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