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From: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
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Subject: Rodilemid, again
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I posted a request for information on a Rumanian anti-AIDS drug called
Rodilemid last week.  My girlfriend (who has been asked to act as a
dietitian on a trial of it in Rumania, with orphanage children as subjects)
has since been sent a 250-page book of reprints on it, all of which are by
the same investigators.

The drug is monocalcium disodium edetate L-cysteine calcium gluconate,
which is primarily a chelating agent.  It was used as a herpes treatment in
Bucharest by Romulus Dinu and his wife Elena; they were then at Bucharest
University but have since left for a company called IMECO, the Industrial
Corporation for Medical Drugs and Cosmetics.  The Dinus have also tried it
for multiple sclerosis.

Something doesn't sound quite right about this.  Has anyone else, anywhere
in the world, looked at the stuff as a treatment for anything?  What do
people know about the Dinus?

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