Word: scleroderma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of the most reputable physicians have given up. Before the ban, the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Arthur L. Scherbel was getting significant and hopeful responses in scleroderma, or "hidebound disease," a disorder of collagen throughout the body that makes it difficult for the victim to clench his 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...