Originally Posted by lurkingforacure

Why are they waiting three to five years to do human trials on this? Does not seem like the risk of harm would be much at all if you had a blood matched family member to donate some blood....and any family member would be more than willing to donate in the hope that it might help. One of those "can't really hurt, and might help a hell of a lot" sort of deals.

Seems like anyone could take a family member and do a transfusion if their doc was willing to try it, or go out of the country if necessary. This to me seems like one of those things you could try on your own if you had a doc who was willing, sort of like fecal transplants. Wonder which country would be easiest to try to do this in/at....anyone have any thoughts?