The contemporary picture is much the same in America as it is in Britain - chelation is practised but is officially unrecognized and is effectively 'on hold'. In America, court cases have been fought in an attempt to get Medicare (the largest health insurance organization) to pay for patients who can no longer be treated by standard medical procedures.
In Canada, the situation is worse. In 1993, the Health Protection Branch of the Federal Health Minister started seizing and turning back all shipments of injectable drugs addressed to physicians who were using them for chelation therapy - this despite the fact that EDTA is a medically approved substance.
Yet Canada is a signatory (as is the USA) to the WHO's 1989 Helsinki Declaration wherein Section II (1) states: 'In the treatment of the sick person the physician must be free to use a new diagnostic and therapeutic measure if in his or her judgement it offers hope of saving life,