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Talking about Protesters rally for access to MS treatment
OTTAWA — A fast, easy cure for multiple sclerosis has been found, but Canadian health officials won’t let MS victims have it, protesters said Wednesday on Parliament Hill.
About 200 people, many in wheelchairs, called on the federal government to get behind a new treatment they believe can cure the degenerative disease.
Talking about CMAJ: Canadian trials to examine “liberation procedure” for multiple sclerosis
Researchers at St. Joseph’s Healthcare will test Zamboni’s proposition. “I have no doubt that there is an auto-immune component to MS. But what Zamboni has done is he has raised the awareness again that the vascular component could be real,” Rodger says. “So it could be auto-immune with a vascular component. And who knows what else? We don’t know.”
Rodger says his team is looking to establish the prevalence of CCSVI by comparing subjects who have multiple sclerosis and with age- and gender-matched healthy people. Those 100 people will be put in four categories: primary progressive, secondary progressive, relapsing and remitting, and benign.
“Specifically, we are going to measure by ultrasound and try to mimic almost exactly, if not exactly, what Zamboni has done. We’re also going to use MR [magnetic resonance] imaging to look at the architecture of the veins,” Rodger says. “We’re trying to see whether MR is superior to ultrasound. It’s obviously a lot more expensive. But you see different things with MR than you see with ultrasound. So really, we’re going to do a comparison.”
The University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health has partnered with the University of Saskatchewan to undertake a similar research project.
Talking about Facebook | MAY 5 Rally VANCOUVER
For Vancouver and Vancouver Area
MAY 5TH at 11:00 AM – CCSVI RALLY
Vancouver City Hall 453 West 12th Avenue.
We are joining the rest of Canadian cities in quest of medical equality for patients with MS. Please bring your family and friends. We need your support.
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Talking about MS Society of Canada – CCSVI Web Streaming Event
The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada recently held two webcasts for the general public and the media on the topic of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) and MS.
From The Current (CBC)
MS Debate: Watch interviews with Paolo Zamboni, pioneer of a new and controversial treatment for multiple sclerosis and Doctor Mark Freedman, the Director of the Multiple Sclerosis Research Unit at the Ottawa Hospital. Plus we speak to Mike Augustine, who suffers from MS, for his thoughts on the controversial treatment.