China home to many unproven medical procedures

Although the world wide web has opened up possibilities for millions seeking everything from marriage advice to television repair diagrams, one thing that needs more scrutiny from web surfers is researching details for medical procedures. As in, where to get them that won't cost an arm and leg.

Often, those in America researching medical procedures find themselves looking towards China. Specifically, for stem cell treatments that don't exist in the U.S. at this time. Are such treatments safe and effective? Are these bets for medical cures just that -- bets?

Some Americans have said they found success with such medical procedures in China. When it comes to physicians in the U.S., many say these folks -- even with reported procedure successes -- are actually guinea pigs in a country where some advanced procedures are carelessly documented. Some even performed an experiment using seven patients and found "no clinically useful improvements" beyond the belief of the actual patients that they had become "better" somehow.