A long-awaited study into Paolo Zamboni’s treatment yields disappointment for most sufferers—yet hope of relief for a few
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An MS trial reported ‘definitive’ results before it was done. Why?
Results from a key Canadian study into venoplasty for MS appear to have been prematurely released, leaving questions
The silent treatment: How Canada has failed MS sufferers
Internal documents show why Canada has not kept its promise to accelerate contentious clinical trials for MS
Saskatchewan goes rogue on CCSVI clinical trials
Brad Wall: ‘It’s a good day in the province of Saskatchewan’
Hurry up and wait for a CCSVI strategy
MS drugs get fast-tracked all the time. Why can’t a clinical trial get the same treatment?
Liberation therapy: the ‘wave of complications’ breaks
Zamboni’s research almost certainly has to have been junk
Liberals push for CCSVI trials in Canada
Private member’s bill would see federal government fund clinical trials of controversial treatment
The Rorschach test of CCSVI research
Experts and journalists are reading whatever they want into a new study examining CCSVI in MS patients
MS liberation latest: Aglukkaq under fire
I see that Colleague Kingston is unsure why the federal Minister of Health is frustrated at media coverage of her ministry’s approach to the vein-centered Zamboni hypothesis about multiple sclerosis. One possible reason, I think, is that statements like those of Liberal health critic Kirsty Duncan are being repeated rather uncritically. Duncan told Kingston “They say we need evidence-based medicine but they are doing nothing to gather evidence.” Nothing? I wonder how else, but as “evidence-gathering”, one could possibly characterize the seven MS Society-funded preliminary studies Aglukkaq mentioned in her burst of finger-wagging at the media. These studies are designed to establish precisely what needs to be confirmed before the dream of a pan-Canadian trial of vein therapy for MS can appropriately be fulfilled: namely, whether there is any such thing at all as “chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency”, and whether it is really correlated with MS.
MS liberation: in defence of Saskatchewan
COSH: “There’s no unitary global Science Court where hypotheses can be hauled in for exoneration or hanging”