A new study involving stem cells at Stanford has given non-ambulatory stroke patients a new lease on life by injecting stem cells directly into a non-ambulatory stroke victim’s brain. As a result, the stroke survivors showed significant improvements. The Stanford neurosurgeon who performed 12 of the 18 stem cell procedures as part of the study, Dr. Gary Steinberg, commented on his own amazement at the success of the study. “This wasn’t just, ‘They couldn’t move their thumb, and now they can.’ Patients who were in wheelchairs are walking now.” However, seeing such incredible progress as a result of the stem cells may be exaggerated – not so much in the success of the sample subjects, but in the sample size itself. Such a small control group of 89 subjects could mean that the results were the product of something like a fluke or a placebo effect. What’s more, the stem cell injections didn’t mean life changing effects on all of the stroke victims. The study at Stanford wasn’t act...