Within the chemotherapy alumni corps there exists a mutual respect not unlike the bond shared by veterans of war. Sometimes that respect is silently conveyed; not everyone wants to talk about it. And sometimes it is shared in the shorthand of the battle-hardened
we have no conclusive scientific evidence to support contentions that mercury-amalgam fillings cause multiple sclerosis, ALS, or any other serious diseases or organ damage, as its foes claim. Nor, I’m sorry to say, do we have definitive scientific evidence to assure us that they are completely safe.
Iplex had never been tested in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the formal name for the fatal disease that had struck Joshua, 34, in late 2006. Developed for a different condition and banished from the market by a patent dispute, it was not for sale to the public anywhere in the world.