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...FDA was clearly right in curbing the free-for-all use of DMSO. Because of premature and wildly optimistic claims, many doctors were trying it without FDA approval. As FDA Commissioner James L. Goddard said later, these were not scientific studies. And because the commercial-grade chemical is so widely available, many victims of severe rheumatic and related disorders were recklessly using DMSO to treat themselves...
Through the Motions. Even so, the FDA ban was criticized on two grounds: it was based on flimsy evidence of damage to the eyes and bladders of laboratory animals when DMSO was used in massive, nonmedical doses; and it was so sweeping that it halted fact finding by even the most cautious medical researchers. Dr. Goddard relented only to the extent of allowing continued use on 50 patients who had benefited from nothing else...
...DMSO can be used only externally, is limited to the few longstanding conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis, for which there is no other satisfactory treatment. All patients must have eye examinations every three months, plus liver-function and blood tests every four weeks. Even after a doctor wins FDA approval for his research plan, he must still persuade a drug company that he is legally entitled to use DMSO...
...hands, and in many cases causes hideously painful fingertip ulcers. Dr. Scherbel has not used DMSO since the ban, except for patients who still have a supply. "We have tentative permission to use DMSO," he says, "but how do you get a drug company to release it?" Fearful of FDA reprisals, drug companies will not even discuss the doctors' predicament, much less resolve...
...INJECTIONS. A progesterone derivative, the Upjohn Co.'s Depo-Provera, has had FDA approval for six years as a treatment for disorders of the lining of the uterus. Its use as a contraceptive is still limited in the U.S. to experimentation by researchers. The dose, injected into a muscle and slowly released into the system, can be adjusted so that women might need an injection only once a month, or every three or six months...