But MSM's effectiveness and safety as a pain reliever in humans haven't been scientifically determined.

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It's derived from dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), which was promoted as a pain reliever in the 1960s and 1970s until scientists discovered in animal tests that it caused eye damage in high doses.

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Among the practical items, she included an ATM card, a laptop in lieu of lugging guidebooks, a corkscrew, bandages and pain reliever.

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Braves reliever Jordan Walden, who had an epidural last week to relieve the pain of a bulging disk, was able to throw BP on Saturday.

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He provided a handwritten list of 30 causes his firm didn't take up, such as recoveries for the pain reliever Oxycontin and Sept. 11.

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