Decades ago, I learned that DMSO was an excellent therapy for strokes and then subsequently had numerous experiences where someone I told to take DMSO had their full stroke resolve on the way to the hospital (sparing them from a life of expected disability), after which I started also using DMSO for successful post-stroke recoveries. When you consider both how debilitating strokes typically are and that, for decades, there has been only piecemeal progress on reducing the suffering they cause, it's hard to put into words how upsetting this has been for me.

So, once I realized I'd stumbled upon being the custodian of a widely read publication, one of my first major projects was to write "The Evidence DMSO Could Save Millions From Brain and Spinal Injury," which struck the same chord in many readers that it had in me, and was seen by millions (many of whom subsequently shared DMSO saved them from a stroke).

In the process of researching that article and the reader requested ones which followed (on the myriad of other transformational uses for DMSO), I gradually realized that a massive volume of buried DMSO literature existed, and felt that due to the support I'd received from readership here, I had the obligation to make that lost knowledge (and the thousands of reader DMSO testimonials—currently 7,500) widely available.
Note: some of the most dramatic neurological recoveries readers shared (which can be viewed in filmed interviews) include from terminal ALS, terminal bulbar ALS, advanced CJD (the 100% fatal prion disease), sight that had been lost for nearly 75 years, and the same spinal cord injury that left Christopher Reeve on a vent for life.

The fastest way I could see to actually do that was to search the key English and foreign databases for each term for DMSO (rather than every possible keyword combination), then filter out the medically relevant studies and compile them and condense them into articles.

Given how much was there, I was initially unsure if this was possible, but over six grueling months (where I was forced to cut back on everything else and hence published less here), I learned a lot, and with the tools that have never before been available, eventually collected 15,000 summarized studies.
Note: in the process of doing the same for the medical ozone literature base, I recently discovered there is one large DMSO database I missed that will need to be done in the near future.

Once they were compiled, I polled the supporters here on which topics had the most interest, and the overwhelming answer was neurology. On one hand I supported starting there, as most of the therapeutic mechanisms which underlie how DMSO works are interwoven with neurology (and I believe laying out the mechanistic basis for how DMSO works is critical for the therapy's adoption), but I was also hesitant as this was single most challenging part of the topic to synthesize (due to the ultimately 4,500 studies which would need to be incorporated).