CHELATION THERAPY HAS been around for decades as a treatment for toxic metal poisoning. But, there have also been claims that the therapy could help several other conditions. Experts aren't so sure.

PNEUMONOCONIOSIS associated with heavy-metal inhalation has long resisted most forms of therapy. The development of chelating agents offers a new approach to this problem. This report concerns our ...

Factorial experiments have been carried out on the effects, upon growth of roots of intact wheat seedlings and growth of wheat coleoptile sections, of different concentrations of 3-indolylacetic acid ...

Scarborough, ME - Tetrathiomolybdate (TTM), a copper-specific chelation agent that has been studied as a palliative treatment for some cancers, can repress the vascular response to injury in rats, ...

Chelation therapy is a proven treatment for heavy metal poisoning. It uses substances that bind to heavy metals and help clear them from the body. Some people also claim that chelation therapy may be ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday warned eight companies that their over-the-counter chelation products are unapproved drugs and devices and that it is a violation of ...

Heavy metals are dangerous at high levels, but treatments that remove can also be risky and only benefit certain patients. Chelation therapy is used to treat acute cases of lead poisoning and other ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Chelation therapy involves IV infusions of an agent that binds to metals such as lead and cadmium and is ...

THE goal of the industrial physician — to protect workers against lead poisoning through such measures as approved respirators, adequate plant ventilation and good personal hygiene 1 — is not always ...

A controversial trial of chelation therapy for autism (see _Nature_ 454, 259; 2008) has been scrapped by the US National Institute of Mental Health, which says its resources are better directed ...