"The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH), despite its denials, has long shown adversity to complementary medicine and to ozone-based medical therapies in particular, and research initiatives have suffered. Another U.S. medical ozone company, for example, had to back off from its groundbreaking clinical investigations on hepatitis C and now focuses on ozone disinfection of hospitals. NYSDOH's interference has proven to be a potent deal breaker. Inhibition of medical ozone development, possibly motivated by commercial interests, is done by discouraging potential business partners from collaborating with U.S. - based medical ozone companies and by discrediting U.S. researchers and entrepreneurs. Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia are consequently now far ahead of the U.S. in the development of these forward-looking biotechnologies."

Dr. Sunnen concluded, "Let us hope that the abandonment of this study will only be temporary and that research avenues will unlock. Diabetics need not suffer the travails of protracted skin ulcer treatments, often experienced as interminable. Amputations devastate the body and often profoundly demoralize patients. Looking into the future, research in oxygen/ozone topical therapies will find applications in all manner of acute and chronic wound care, including diabetic and pressure ulcers, circulatory skin lesions, post-surgical wounds, and complex accident and war wounds."

Source: ozonicsint