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To the Medical Community, or Dear Dr. Weinstock

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Article after article extolling the virtues of helminths’ ability to prevent allergies and autoimmune diseases always end in quotes like this:
“The hope is that the work could aid the development of new treatments which work in the same way as gut parasites, by dampening down or rebalancing the immune system so that the body does [...]

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Asphelia Pharmaceuticals: the new TSO

Monday, December 1, 2008

So it looks like TSO has been bought by Asphelia Pharmaceuticals, who supposedly has rights to all uses of TSO except for IBD in Europe. Here’s a link to their site:
http://www.aspheliapharma.com/
And they have a fabulous video on the use of helminths for inflammatory diseases:
http://www.aspheliapharma.com/media.html
In their pipeline, they claim that they were [...]

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Week 10: More worms?

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Always an American, too many choices.
Oh, the selection in the hookworm market! I can a) wait and get no more larvae; if I’m not better by X amount of months I can b) get more slowly – 2 or 3 every few weeks or c) get more quickly and possibly suffer the ill effects. [...]

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