{"id":5322,"date":"2011-11-18T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5322"},"modified":"2019-03-24T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T06:09:15","slug":"veterinary-surgeon-cautions-against-stem-cell-therapy-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/veterinary-surgeon-cautions-against-stem-cell-therapy-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterinary surgeon cautions against stem cell therapy hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a practicing, board-certified veterinary surgeon and former medical researcher, I read with interest your Nov. 12 article on stem cell therapy for Tobo the German shepherd (&#8220;Healing veteran&#8217;s best pal&#8221;). Among the current treatment options for severe canine hip dysplasia, total hip replacement is the gold standard with three decades of clinical research behind it, but it is expensive (over $4,500) and carries risk of major complication.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2011\/11\/16\/1646973\/canine-hip-therapy.html#ixzz1e4byNeCp\">Read more: <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the current treatment options for severe canine hip dysplasia, total hip replacement is the gold standard with three decades of clinical research behind it, but it is expensive (over $4,500) and carries risk of major complication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8915,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322\/revisions\/8915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}