jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) (10/02/90)
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? -- Jack Campin Computing Science Department, Glasgow University, 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland 041 339 8855 x6044 work 041 556 1878 home JANET: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk BANG!net: via mcsun and ukc FAX: 041 330 4913 INTERNET: via nsfnet-relay.ac.uk BITNET: via UKACRL UUCP: jack@glasgow.uucp
ddodell@stjhmc.fidonet.org (David Dodell) (10/04/90)
On <Tue, Oct 02 12:53>, UUCP (jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk Date: 2 Oct 90 12:53:53 GMT) wrote: >I posted a request for information on a Rumanian anti-AIDS drug called >Rodilemid last week. >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 Jack, as I mentioned directly last week, I could not find anything about this drug in MEDLINES or AIDSLINE ... I ran a search last night on Romulus Dinu to see if he has published any articles, and again MEDLINES and AIDSLINE came up empty. I agree, something very fishy here. David -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona uucp: {gatech, ames, rutgers}!ncar!asuvax!stjhmc!ddodell Bitnet: ATW1H @ ASUACAD FidoNet=> 1:114/15 Internet: ddodell@stjhmc.fidonet.org FAX: +1 (602) 451-1165