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Arthritis and asthma victims, and all other users of ACTH, got some good news from Armour Laboratories last week. Highly purified "HP ACTHAR Gel" brings quicker relief than older forms of the hormone, can be injected more easily, and will cost less. Typical five-day asthma treatment will drop from $31.25 to $12; the 21-day dosage for acute early rheumatoid arthritis from...
Unlike cortisone, phenylbutazone is not a hormone, and it does not seem to arrest the disease process in arthritis. But it has one huge advantage over ACTH and cortisone: its benefits are not limited to the 10% of arthritis sufferers who have the rheumatoid form of the disease. Instead, it seems to work equally well in the far commoner osteoarthritis (also called degenerative arthritis), which usually comes with old age, and in the crippling arthritis of the spine...
Doctors announce their defeats as well as their victories with new drugs. A Vancouver, B.C. physician reports that he tried ACTH on three patients suffering from a type of baldness in which all the body's hair falls out. After about three weeks, all three had promising growths of hair. The only trouble: when the ACTH had to be stopped because of the patients' intolerance to further treatment, all their hair fell out again...
...ACTH and cortisone have checked RLF; others differ...