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Biotech / Medical : Gum Tech (GUMM)
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To: Street Walker who wrote (67)1/29/1999 2:10:00 AM
From: Bengalus   of 133
 
You folks are getting carried away and are going to lose money if you believe all this hype.

The GunnAllen press release says, "The science behind ZICAM can be found at the ZICAM website: www.zicam.com."

What do you find at this site? Not much. A central bit of text reads:

"In 1995, Dr. Charles B. Hensley and Dr. R. Steven Davidson (two of
Gel Tech's founders) developed the ionic free flow emulsification
technology which led to their discovery of the compound,
ZinulloseTM, which blocks the ability of the cold virus from binding
to the ICAM-1 binding sites and from infecting the nasal cells.
Subsequently, Drs. Hensley and Davidson developed ZICAMTM, a
cold remedy containing ZinulloseTM designed to reduce the duration
of the common cold. Subsequent double blind research demonstrated
that ZICAMTM is highly effective as a treatment for the common
cold, reducing the duration of the cold from 10-14 days to an average
of 1.5 days (Hensley and Davidson, 1998)."

The only relevant reference noted below this reads as follows:

"Hensley CB and Davidson RS. Manuscript in preparation"

Nothing has been demonstrated, even in the most preliminary sense, until such research is published in a peer reviewed journal. That hasn't happened. Even Quigley Corp (Nasdaq: QGLY) had two studies published in peer-reviewed journals before their Cold Eeze zinc lozenge made a splash. The enthusiastic doctor on this thread should be ashamed of himself for jumping on the bandwagon without actually noting that he has absolutely nothing to base his enthusiasm on.

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