CCSVI in the News

  • Patients Report Controversial Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Improves Their Lives: Presented at ISET 2012
    BUSINESS WIRE (MARKETWATCH.COM), January 16, 2012 | By Business Wire News Staff | MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Jan 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Although using angioplasty to treat multiple sclerosis (MS) is highly controversial, sufferers often insist it...
  • MS sufferer experiences liberation
    WINKLER TIMES, January 16, 2012 | By LORI PENNER | It all started in 2001, when Sherri Rempel started having vision problems. After an MRI, she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. At the time, she was living in Winnipeg and going to...
  • Saskatchewan goes rogue on CCSVI clinical trials
    MACLEANS.CA, January 13, 2012 | By ANNE KINGSTON | Yesterday Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall left the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) and the MS Society of Canada in the dust when he announced his government has allocated $2.2 million...
  • MS Clinic Trial Applications in New York open to Saskatchewan patient
    PrairiePost.Com, January 12, 2012 | By PrairiePost.Com News Staff | Premier Brad Wall announced today that Dr. Gary Siskin of the Albany Medical Centre is in the final stages of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the largest...
  • Health gains, setback for MS patient a year after controversial procedure
    The Nugget, January 8, 2012 | By MARIA CALABRESE | The Coopers each grab a brush and hop onto a trailer to remove a blanket of snow covering a tarp and a winter toy. The fatigue that once kept Kim Cooper from the work and play that many healthy...
  • MS sufferers losing hope for Manitoba trials
    Winnipeg Free Press, January 8, 2012 | By: DANI FINCH and TERRYN SHIELLS | Saskatchewan has abandoned homegrown clinical trials meant to test a new multiple sclerosis therapy, and MS sufferers are worried Manitoba might do the same. After it put...
  • Desperate MS patient seeks surgery
    THE WINDSOR STAR, December 28, 2011 | By TREVOR WILHELM | CHATHAM-KENT, Ont. -- To escape "hell," Pam Lozon is willing to face the risk. Plagued by multiple sclerosis - now unable to play with her son or enjoy the touch of his hair on her skin -...
  • National CCSVI Society is Born: Finding Room in the Not-For-Profit Landscape
    MARKETWIRE.COM, December 28, 2011 | By MarketWire.Com News Staff | VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Dec. 28, 2011) - When news broke in Canada of a new medical discovery in 2009 of a vascular connection to certain neurodegenerative...
  • MS patient seeks 're-liberation' in U.S.
    THE OBSERVER, December 28, 2011 | By CATHY DOBSON | Dom Fernandes wants another balloon inserted into his left internal jugular vein. Otherwise, the 35-year-old former taxi driver from Sarnia fears his Multiple Sclerosis will beat him. The...
  • Government inaction a bitter pill for Brockville woman with MS
    THE RECORDER AND TIMES, December 18, 2011 | By NICK GARDINER | Christmas is all about family for Brockville's Kathy Francis. But instead of spending the holidays with her 89-year-old mother, a daughter expecting her first child and her son and...
  • Government inaction a bitter pill for Brockville woman with MS
    THE RECORDER AND TIMES, December 18, 2011 | By NICK GARDINER | Christmas is all about family for Brockville's Kathy Francis. But instead of spending the holidays with her 89-year-old mother, a daughter expecting her first child and her son and...
  • Technology at U of A giving hope to MS patients
    GLOBALTVEDMONTON.COM, December 16, 2011 | By GlobalTVEdmonton.Com News Staff | There are at least 11,000 Albertans living with MS, which affects each one of them differently, with symptoms ranging from dizziness to difficulty walking. And while...
  • AN OPEN LETTER TO M.P. COLIN CARRIE
    WIRESERVICE.CA, December 9, 2011 | Government refuses to support a national strategy for Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) to help Canadians with MS AN OPEN LETTER TO COLIN CARRIE Dear Mr. Carrie, We watched the debate on Bill C-...
  • MS vein treatment registry launches in B.C.
    CBC.CA, December 8, 2011 | By CBC.CA News Staff | BC registry for CCSVIBC CCSVI registry info sheet, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. British Columbia's new patient registry aims to record the positive and negative impact of a vein-...
  • Single mom plans MS therapy in United States
    EDMONTON JOURNAL.COM, December 5, 2011 | By CAM TAIT | Siobhan MacQueen loves making cookies, and with grandchildren potentially blessing her life, there's nothing more MacQueen would like to do than to share cookies with them. But she has...
  • MS patients sold on Liberation treatment
    TRURO DAILY NEWS, November 28, 2011 | By Truro Daily News Staff | TRURO - Paddi Lemon recalls all too well the trying times of being tired all the time. "One of the biggest things is fatigue, just that heavy feeling of walking through cement. It'...
  • PLEASE HELP: support Kirsty Duncan's bill C-280
    The Government, the MS Society and the CIHR are wasting time and taxpayer money at the expense of peoples lives! The recent announcement made by the Minister of Health and the CIHR to accept proposals for the Phase I/II trial of CCSVI goes against...
  • MS Society impedes scientific progress and issues death warrant for many MS patients
    WIRESERVICE.CA, November 25, 2011 | Submitted by CCSVI | "The Federal Government and the MS Society are acting irresponsibly" said Warren Stefanuk, President of the Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency Society of Alberta (CCSVI Alberta). To...
  • THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE OF THE MS SOCIETY OF CANADA AND THE CANADIAN INSTITUTES OF HEALTH RESEARCH (CIHR) CONTINUES
    WIRESERVICE.CA, November 25, 2011 | Submitted by CCSVIONTARIO | The MS Society of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), aided and abetted by the Federal Health Minister, strike again at Canadians with MS and their families...
  • CBC - MS treatment clinical trials a step closer
    CBC.CA, November 25, 2011 | By MEGAN FITZPATRICK | The Canadian Institutes of Health Research is ready to accept proposals for clinical trials on the proposed condition behind multiple sclerosis known as CCSVI, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq...
  • Government of Canada launches a request for research proposals for CCSVI clinical trial
    DIGITALJOURNAL.COM, November 25, 2011 | CANADA NEWSWIRE | HALIFAX, Nov. 25, 2011 /CNW/ - The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, and Dr. Alain Beaudet, President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), today announced...
  • Liberation liberating, say women
    THE SUDBURY STAR, November 18, 2011 | By CAROL MULLIGAN | Members of the Sudbury chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada are calling upon the federal government to speed up approval of a procedure now in clinical trials that is...
  • B.C. Man seeking medical procedure for MS has human rights complaint shot down
    VANCOUVER SUN, November 11, 2011 | By Medha | A B.C. man with multiple sclerosis who was denied a controversial medical procedure promoted by Italian physician Paolo Zamboni has had his complaint dismissed by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal....
  • Liberation Therapy helped MS sufferer
    WINDSORSTAR.COM, November 8, 2011 | By BARRY ASHBY | I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 18 years ago. At the time, the fear was overwhelming. One of my many fears was not being able to walk my daughter down the aisle when she married. In...
  • MS sufferers denied proven treatment in Canada, advocate charges
    OTTAWACITIZEN.COM, November 6, 2011 | By IAN MacLEOD | People with a medical condition linked to multiple sclerosis are unfairly denied safe and proven treatment in Canada because many neurologists cling to outdated thinking about the disease, the...
  • CCSVI Coalition's Scientific Advisory Board of experts on CCSVI Treatment and MS
    NEWSWIRE.CA, November 3, 2011 | By NewsWire.Ca Staff | TORONTO, Nov. 3, 2011 /CNW - Today the CCSVI Coalition announced its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). The advisory group of diagnostic, treatment and pathology experts has extraordinary...
  • Feds approve clinical trials for controversial MS treatment
    YORKREGION.COM, October 24, 2011 | By CATHY HILLARD | A recent surprise decision by the federal government to go ahead with clinical trials for the so-called "liberation therapy" for multiple sclerosis patients has been welcomed by interest groups...
  • Montel Williams discusses controversial MS treatment CTVNews.ca Staff
    CTVNEWS.CA, October 23, 2011 | By CTVNews.Ca Staff | Having spent much of his adult life coping with multiple sclerosis and trying various medical options, former talk show host Montel Williams decided an experimental -- and controversial --...
  • Montel Williams Announces Fact Finding and Information Sharing Trip to Israel
    GLOBENEWSWIRE via COMTEX, October 21, 2011 | NEW YORK, Oct 21, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Emmy Award-winning television personality and noted patient activist Montel Williams will travel to Israel October 24 to November 2 to take meetings...
  • Worsening MS patients turn to the Internet rather than their neurologist
    NEURO-SENS.COM, October 20, 2011 | By Neuro-Sens.Com News Staff | REPORT FROM THE 25TH CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR TREATMENT AND RESEARCH IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (ECTRIMS) - AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, OCTOBER 19-22, 2011 - An Internet...
  • Meta-Analysis Supports Link Between CCSVI and MS
    MEDSCAPE.COM, October 19, 2011 | By Medscape.Com News Staff | October 19, 2011 - A new meta analysis concludes there is a strong and statistically significant association between chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) and multiple...
  • The influence of politics and the public on research funding in Canada
    IPOLITICS.Ca, October 14, 2011 | By TERRENCE SULLIVAN | The recent controversy about a new treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) has raised questions about the role of patients and politicians in determining health research priorities. In the...
  • Canadian study to track MS patients after vein-opening treatments abroad
    WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, October 17, 2011 | By SHERYL UBELACKER, Health Reporter, The Canadian Press | TORONTO - A Canadian doctor is beginning his own before-and-after study of MS patients who are opting for the so-called liberation treatment. Dr....
  • Dr.Sandy McDonald's CCSVI Observational study
    Hello, Canadian MS patients are invited to participate in Dr. McDonald's observational study. Please visit CCSVI Coalition for all the details. Kind Regards, Rebecca Cooney www.msliberation.ca a proud partner of the Canadian CCSVI Coalition Read...
  • CCSVI Conference at the Ottawa Convention Centre
    Please join us on 5 November 2011, from 10am - 4pm for the CCSVI Conference at the Ottawa Convention Centre in Ottawa, Ontario! Presenters, with links to their relevant work, include: Dr. Kirsty Duncan MP: Urging government to act on CCSVI Dr. Mark...
  • MP Leon Benoit creating awareness of MS treatment
    VERMILLION STANDARD, October 12, 2011 | By FRANCOIS BIBER | In 2007 Dewberry local Ralph Davies took a trip to Costa Mesa, California to undergo an experimental procedure to treat Multiple Sclerosis (MS), something Davies was diagnosed with in...
  • Hope - and concern - in new MS treatment
    THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, October 10, 2011 | By COURTNEY PERKES | An experimental new treatment for multiple sclerosis patients is fiercely debated. Some patients say the treatment, in which a balloon is used to expand the veins draining from...
  • MS studies still uncertain about 'liberation therapy'
    EDMONTON JOURNAL.COM, October 3, 2011 | By SHARON KIRKEY, Postmedia News | People with multiple sclerosis are significantly more likely to have abnormalities in the veins draining blood from the brain than people without MS, new Canadian research...
  • Sask. to enter partnership with U.S. on MS research.
    VANCOUVERSUN.COM, September 23, 2011 | By ANGELA HALL, PostMedia News | REGINA - Saskatchewan says it will pay for some provincial patients to participate in a multiple sclerosis clinical trial of the so-called "liberation" therapy in Albany, N....
  • Men strut their stuff for CCSVI
    SIMCOE.COM, September 23, 2011 | By Simcoe.Com News Staff | BARRIE - The CCSVI Foundation of Canada is hosting a men-only fundraising beauty pageant Saturday, Oct. 15 in Barrie. Held at the Army, Navy, Air Force Club at 7 George St., men will...
  • Local Resident Returns From CCSVI Conference
    HQGRANDEPRAIRIE.COM, September 20, 2011 | By HQGrandePrairie.Com Staff | A CCSVI conference in Vancouver has turned Grande Prairie's Debbie Golden onto some new information. Golden is the president of the G-P CCSVI Society which advocates for...
  • Sask. Gov't promises details on MS research funding
    REGINA LEADER POST, September 19, 2011 | By ANGELA HALL | Health Minister Don McMorris says the province will announce details this week of how $5-million in provincial funding will be used to help advance clinical trials of the "liberation"...
  • Sunlight the answer to MS
    UNIVERSITYWORLDNEWS.COM -Issue:0189, September 18, 2011 | By GEOFF MASLEN | More than 250 researchers in 15 countries, along with 10,000 patients, have taken part in one of the longest and largest human genetic studies ever undertaken into the...
  • Parry Sound MS sufferer gets good news
    COTTAGECOUNTRYNOW.CA, September 16, 2011 | By SARAH FRANK | PARRY SOUND - After years of hoping for any sign of her condition improving, Dawn Smith can now move her fingers. The Parry Sounder who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in 1983...
  • On the risks of CCSVI treatment: where's the beef? The latest study into the controversial MS treatment sheds no light on its effectiveness
    Macleans, Sept. 6 2011 | By Anne Kingston | As a piece of scientific research, the much-discussed University of Calgary report by eight neurologists published in the September issue of the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences is a strange...
  • Airdrie MS patient calls new research "doom and gloom"
    Airdrie City View, Sept. 2 2011 | By Stacie Snow | An Airdrie resident who underwent the controversial "liberation treatment" for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) a year ago, says a recent report by the University of Calgary is "all doom and gloom."...
  • Liberating Nicole
    SOOKENEWSMIRROR.COM, August 31, 2011 | By Pirjo Raits | It’s controversial, unapproved and looked at with skepticism but for some it works and many argue it is live-saving. Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) is a term developed...
  • Launch trials
    CALGARYHERALD.COM, August 31, 2011 | By ASHTON EMBRY | Re: "MS sufferers need answers," Editorial, Aug. 29. The board of directors of Direct-MS, Canada's second largest multiple sclerosis charity, would like to thank the Calgary Herald for the...
  • New treatment splits MS community
    Timescolonist.com, Aug. 30 2011 | By Richard Watts | When a progressive, incurable disease, such as multiple sclerosis, meets a possible remedy, such as venous angioplasty, demands for treatment, verification and information soon become...
  • MS sufferers need answers
    CALGARYHERALD.COM, August 29, 2011 | By CalgaryHerald.Com News Staff | New research from the University of Calgary documenting complications with the controversial MS liberation therapy is one more reason for the province to conduct full...
  • MS controversy: Inflating veins, deflating symptoms
    ABCLOCAL.GO.COM, August 29, 2011 | By ABCLocal.Go.Com News Staff | August 29, 2011 (WLS) -- About 400,000 people in the United States are prisoners in their own bodies because of Multiple Sclerosis. MS is an autoimmune disease affecting the...
  • MS patients cling to hope
    CALGARYSUN.COM, August 28, 2011 | By MICHAEL PLATT | It's a very slim chance - about 1.4 in one million, to be exact - but having your wisdom teeth pulled under general anesthetic can kill you. That's what a grim report out of Ontario proved,...
  • CCSVI Calgary General Meeting - September 13, 2011
    CCSVICALGARY.ORG, August 28, 2011 | CCSVI Calgary General Meeting Tuesday September 13th, 2011 Royal Canadian Legion, Northwest 1910 Kensington Rd NW Meet, greet and dine – starting at 5pm till 6:30pm Meeting: 6:30- 8:30 pm Agenda to be determined...
  • Dr. Sandy McDonald Responds to University of Calgary CCSVI Study
    CCSVICOALITION.ORG, August 27, 2011 | A new University of Calgary study documenting complications in patients who have undergone treatment for CCSVI amounts to little more than fear-mongering. The researchers looked at potential complications in...
  • New hope for MS
    LLOYDMINSTERSOURCE.COM, August 26, 2011 | By KATIE RYAN | Tim Donovan said he just turned one earlier this month, though his laugh lines indicate otherwise. He was on tour when he celebrated his one-year birthday on Aug. 5, 2010 - the day he...
  • MS patients defend controversial surgery
    MONTREALGAZETTE.COM, August 25, 2011 | By MATT McCLURE, Postmedia News | CALGARY - Patients with multiple sclerosis who claim they've benefited from the so-called "liberation therapy" say Calgary neurologists are stirring up needless fear about...
  • Liberation therapy: the 'wave of complications' breaks
    MACLEANS.CA, August 25, 2011 | By COLBY COSH | A group of Calgary neurologists has published a report on foreseeable complications faced by locals who have returned from going abroad and receiving trendy "liberation therapy" for multiple sclerosis...
  • MS treatment a success for local woman
    DAILYHERALDTRIBUNE.COM, August 25, 2011 | By KIRSTEN GORUK | It's been three weeks since Stacey Hodgins, 31, travelled to Costa Mesa, Calif., to try her luck with chronic cerebro-spinal venous insufficiency(CCSVI) treatment for multiple sclerosis...
  • LETTER: Seeking liberation from MS and thankful for community support
    MODERNTIMES.COM, August 25, 2011 | By ModernTimes.Com News Staff | Nothing restores your faith in humanity more than when someone reaches out to you and gives you a hand. This happened for me on Saturday, August 13 at my home just outside of...
  • CTV - Study raises complication concerns over MS treatment
    CTV.CA, August 23, 2011 | By CTV.ca News Staff | New Canadian research has documented numerous complications in MS patients who have travelled abroad to undergo a controversial treatment for their illness. Researchers at the University of...
  • Edmonton group lobbies for faster MS treatment trials
    VANCOUVER SUN, August 20, 2011 | By CODI WILSON, Post Media News | EDMONTON - An Edmonton-based group pushing to bring controversial multiple sclerosis liberation therapy to Canada say the federal government isn't acting quickly enough. "Time...
  • Opening Veins
    THETELEGRAM.COM, August 19, 2011 | By TheTelegram.Com News Staff | Is it time to put Zamboni on ice? Rather, should we give up on the controversial “liberation” treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS), invented by Italian vascular surgeon Dr. Paolo...
  • Brothers raise funds for MS
    VERNON MORNING STAR, August 19, 2011 | By Verson Morning Star Staff Writer | Two young brothers have decided to continue their tradition of helping others, even though their mother doesn't need it anymore. Joel Kongsdorf, eight years old, and...
  • Information session on controversial MS treatment Aug. 25
    NIAGARATHISWEEK.COM, August 19, 2011 | By NiagaraThisWeek.Com News Staff | A Canadian society raising awareness about chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) will make a stop in Winona next week. The National CCSVI Society (NCS) is...
  • MS research doubles number of genes associated with the disease, increasing the number to over 50
    HEALTHCANAL.COM, August 18, 2011 | By HealthCanal.Com News Staff | Dr. John Rioux, researcher at the Montreal Heart Institute, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Université de Montréal and original co-founder of the International Multiple...
  • Don’t discount Zamboni, advocate says
    THE TELEGRAM, August 16, 2011 | BY ANDREW ROBINSON | Last May, St. John’s lawyer Michael Duffy required a cane to walk and a fistful of drugs to make it through the work day. By 5 p.m., he was exhausted. Saturday, he rappelled down the side of...
  • New study on treating CCSVI shows promising results
    Hello, Many of you may have already heard the news, but just in case here are links about a recent treatment study done jointly between Italy and the US. CCSVI Locator: Dr. Zamboni on the new published research. Read more... CTV report: Study...
  • CTV: MS genetic discovery casts doubt on vein theory
    CTV NEWS, August 11, 2011 | By CTVNews.Ca Staff | Scientists have discovered 29 new genetic variations linked to multiple sclerosis, with many involving genes relevant to the immune system - a finding that they say bolsters the theory that MS is...
  • "We now know the cause of MS. It's no longer a mystery," said Dr. Hafler,
    GLOBE AND MAIL, August 11, 2011 | By CARLY WEEKS | The largest genetics-based study of multiple sclerosis ever conducted is casting significant doubt on a controversial theory that the disease is a vascular condition caused by blocked neck veins....
  • Grande Prairie Woman A Fan Of CCSVI Treatment
    HQGRANDEPRAIRIE.COM, August 8, 2011 | By Hqgrandieprairie.Com News Staff | Stacey Hodgins says her quality of life has improved since receiving the CCSVI Liberation therapy. The Grande Prairie women received the controversial treatment last...
  • MS treatment allows happy dance
    TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL, August 6, 2011 | By JEANNE WHITEHEAD, Canadaeast News Service | SUSSEX - A YouTube video by Lisa Gallagher shows the Sussex woman doing a happy dance. Something she couldn't do just a short while ago. "And look," she says. "I...
  • My liberation surgery; A search for the answer to MS
    WINNIPEG FREE PRESS - ONLINE EDITION, August 6, 2011 | By Ingeborg Boyens | IF you are at all like me, a year ago "CCSVI" was just one more silly acronym that might have been wielded by texting 14-year-olds. Perhaps it was an abbreviation for "...
  • Eight-year-old helping dad after CCSVI treatment
    MISSISSAUGA.COM, August 5, 2011 | By JULIA LE | Alessia Commisso is bringing back an old-fashioned summer business idea to raise money for her father. The eight-year-old is setting up a lemonade stand on the driveway of her family's Broomhill Cr...
  • MS study a waste, says CCSVI group
    HERALD-TRIBUNE, August 2, 2011 | By KIRSTEN GORUK | A new web-based study launched by the Alberta government has some concerned that three years is being wasted before the CCSVI (chronic cerebro-spinal venous insufficiency) treatment can enter...
  • Hope is around corner, speaker says
    ST. LAWRENCE EMC News, July 28, 2011 | By Doreen Barnes | Is there hope at the next exit? According to multiple sclerosis sufferer Tim Donovan there is. He's on a mission to cross Canada to bring awareness through his 'New Hope for Multiple...
  • Edmonton: Internet study to track liberation treatment for MS patients
    EDMONTON JOURNAL, July 27 2011 | By Jodie Sinnema | EDMONTON - Albertans with multiple sclerosis, including those who have had the so-called "liberation" treatment to open blocked veins, are being encouraged to document their experiences online...
  • CCSVI Society Not Impressed With Observational Study
    HQGRANDEPRAIRIE.COM, July 27, 2011 | By Hqgrandeprairie.Com News Staff | The Grande Prairie CCSVI Society isn't happy with the government's move to start up an MS observational study. President Debbie Golden says the government should be moving...
  • Alberta to announce next step in MS Initiative
    CTV EDMONTON, July 26 2011 | By CTV Edmonton Staff | On Wednesday, Alberta's health minister is set to outline the next step in the Alberta MS Initiative (TAMSI). CTV News has learned the initiative will include a website and an online...
  • Grande Prairie CCSVI Group Pushing Feds For Clinical Trials
    HQGRANDEPRAIRIE.COM, July 21, 2011 | By HQGRANDEPRAIRIE.COM News Staff | Grande Prairie's CCSVI group wants to see the federal government move faster on rolling out clinical trials for the M.S. treatment. Group President Debbie Golden says the...
  • New Hope for MS
    THE LEADER-POST - July 20, 2011 | By The Leader-Post New Staff | The New Hope for MS Tour with Tim Donavon will be stopping in Regina on Friday. Donavon has received CCSVI (Chronic Cerebro-Spinal Venous Insufficiency), otherwise known as...
  • Symptom Improvement Observed After Venoplasty in MS Patients
    INTERNAL MEDICINE NEWS - July 18, 2011 | By KERRI WATCHER | CHICAGO - Preliminary data from a series of multiple sclerosis patients who underwent percutaneous transluminal venoplasty to treat chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency suggest that...
  • Are narrow blood vessels to blame in MS?
    REUTORS.COM - July 14, 2011 | By GENEVRA PITTMAN | NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite a few well-publicized studies and many hopeful patients waiting for treatment, there is no good evidence that multiple sclerosis, or MS, is caused by a blood...
  • Funding rules stymie MS sufferer
    TELEGRAPH JOURNAL - July 14, 2011 | By REID SOUTHWICK | A St. Stephen woman with a limited income plundered most of her precious savings to receive treatment in Rhode Island for multiple sclerosis, a disease that left her debilitated for years....
  • MS sufferers undeterred by death of Calgary woman after experimental vein surgery
    CALGARY HERALD - July 13, 2011 | By LAURA STONE | Roger Laforest had only been back in town for a week when he heard the news: a Calgary woman had died following the experimental vein surgery he had just undertaken to treat his multiple sclerosis...
  • Calgary woman dies after experimental MS treatment
    CALGARY HERALD AND POSTMEDIA NEWS - July 9, 2011 | By Matt McClure | A Calgary woman is the second Canadian to die after having an experimental vein treatment for multiple sclerosis. Within hours of having her neck veins opened at a California...
  • 2nd Canadian dies after MS surgery
    CBC News - July 8, 2011 | By CBC News Staff | A second Canadian has died after having an experimental vein treatment for multiple sclerosis, CBC News has learned. Maralyn Clarke, 56, of Calgary, suffered from MS for years before travelling to a...
  • Resident thanks fundraisers for MS procedure
    BANCROFTTHISWEEK.COM - July 7, 2011 By Bancroftthisweek.Com Staff The fundraisers shout out a big thank you to all who participated in Tere's Liberation Procedure fund, as does Tere. "I feel incredibly lucky to have had this opportunity to heal. It...
  • Funding MS trials not enough, patient says
    OTTAWA CITIZEN - July 7, 2011 By Kristy Nease An Ottawa man who travelled to Poland more than a year ago for a controversial multiple sclerosis treatment says the recent announcement that Canada will fund clinical trials of the procedure doesn't go...
  • CCSVI trials questioned
    SMITH FALLS EMC - JULY 7, 2011 | By JUDY BUTCHER | Dear Editor: When I first heard that the federal government will fund clinical trials for CCSVI/MS in Canada I had a feeling of disbelief. The Multiple Sclerosis (MS) community is happy, but we...
  • American Access Care hosts Special Education Day for MS Patients & Caregivers
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 5, 2011, New York, NY - On July 15, 2011 at 9:30am, American Access Care, the premier operator of interventional radiology centers in the United States, will host a special Education Day for patients that are suffering...
  • CCSVI trials great news for local MS group
    THE DAILY HERALD TRIBUNE - July 4, 2011 By Aaron Hinks After reviewing new scientific information this month, the federal government has agreed to fund clinical trials of the CCSVI treatment for multiple sclerosis. The treatment, which was...
  • MS decision applauded
    THE SUDBURY STAR - July 4, 2011 By Rita Poliakov Tyna Raymond was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) when she was 22. She can no longer work full-time, has problems with walking and balance and has significant fatigue. And now, thanks to the...
  • EDITORIAL: Time for liberation therapy answers
    CHRONICLE HERALD - July 4, 2011 By Chronicle Herald News Staff THERE'S no question some people with multiple sclerosis - though not all - have seen dramatic improvements in their conditions after travelling abroad and paying for so-called liberation...
  • Canada to fund CCSVI trials
    Please find attached the updated website with links to some news articles about the government's announcement to fund Phase 1 and phase 2 of CCSVI trials. My personal view on this is as follows: Although I am very happy that the federal government...
  • Quebec doctors skeptical of controversial MS treatment
    MONTREAL GAZETTE - July 2, 2011 By Charlie Fidelman Ottawa's surprise move to fund clinical trials of a controversial vein widening treatment for symptoms of multiple sclerosis has raised eyebrows among Quebec specialists, caught offguard by the...
  • 'For someone with MS, waiting isn't an option'
    THE NIAGARA FALLS REVIEW - July 2, 2011 By Grant LaFleche, QMI Agency Jayne Thomas greeted the news with enthusiasm, even as she felt the familiar creep of her body fighting against itself. "I am very pleased with this news, although I have to add a...
  • MS liberation treatment trials given the 'OK'; "It's a year too late,"
    THE BARRIE EXAMINER - July 2, 2011 By Cheryl Browne One year after Diana Gordon had multiple sclerosis (MS) liberation therapy done in New York, Canada announced it will start performing trials on this side of the border. "It's a year too late,"...
  • Former dancer 'liberated' and forgets she has MS
    KINGSTON THIS WEEK - June 30, 2011 By Martha Tanner Darcie Kelly has always viewed the glass half full, even when life handed the former dancer a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) at age 28. But since undergoing a procedure called "liberation...
  • More research needed for MS broad trials: Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation
    News talk 980 June 30, 2011 By Bre McAdam People in Saskatchewan with multiple sclerosis may be saddened by a recent setback when it comes to clinical trials for a controversial MS treatment funded by the provincial government. The...
  • MS announcement too late for some, patients say
    CBC, Jun 30, 2011 The federal government's announcement that it will fund clinical trials for multiple sclerosis patients might be good news for some, but for others it is a little too late. Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq said Wednesday that...
  • Not Ready to Cheer CCSVI Trials
    ANewsVanIsland on June 30 Jaclyn Horscroft is traveling to California next month for CCSVI. Jaclyn was diagnosed with MS tens years ago. She Jaclyn was diagnosed with MS tens years ago. She is in pain and has low energy. The treatment that uses...
  • "Research yes, still no right to treatment," CCSVI Coalition
    NEWSWIRE.COM - June 29, 2011 By Newswire.Com Staff Today the Government of Canada on the unanimous advice of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) approved funding for clinical trials of CCSVI related to Multiple Sclerosis. This is a...
  • MS treatment trials face setback in Saskatchewan
    The Canadian Press, Jun. 29, 2011 The first province to pledge clinical trials of a controversial treatment for multiple sclerosis says there's been "a setback." Saskatchewan Health Minister Don McMorris said Wednesday that one proposal was...
  • Ottawa approves controversial multiple sclerosis trials
    Cape Breton Post & The Canadian Press - June 29, 2011 By Erin Pottie SYDNEY - The federal government has agreed to begin conducting clinical trials of a controversial treatment used to ease the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. Topics : Ottawa...
  • NICE to review MS guideline
    MSTRUST.ORG.UK - June 23, 2011 By MS Trust NICE (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has announced that they will be updating the clinical guidelines for MS. The guideline Management of multiple sclerosis in primary and...
  • PTS Solutions to Offer Customized Ground Transportation Services for CCSVI Patients
    BUSINESS WIRE June 22, 2011 Synergy Health Concepts, a renowned medical group focused on CCSVI treatment and care, today announced it has partnered with Pacific Transportation Solutions (PTS) to offer its patients customized ground transportation...
  • N.S. taking reasoned stance on MS therapy
    CAPE BRETON POST - June 22, 2011 By Cape Breton Post News Staff The New Brunswick government announced last week that multiple sclerosis patients in that province can now access public money to pay a portion of the costs associated with the so-...
  • New Hope for MS tour comes to Brockville
    BROCKVILLE RECORDER & TIMES - June 22, 2011 By Nick Gardiner A Liberal MP who advocates for clinical trials in Canada on an experimental Multiple Sclerosis treatment will be among the speakers at C.J.'s Banquet Hall When the New Hope for MS...
  • MS surgery offers a 'glimmer of hope'
    NIAGARAthisWEEK.COM - June 21, 2011 By Amanda Street There are days when she can't move. Her speech gets slurred and she has trouble swallowing. During those times she prays. She prays that it won't last for long. She prays she won't relapse...
  • CBC - MS vein therapy clinical trials demanded by Liberals
    CBC NEWS - June 20, 2011 By Meagan Fitzpatrick A group of Liberal MPs have renewed their call for the federal government to fund clinical trials of the controversial vein-opening therapy for multiple sclerosis known as the Zamboni procedure....
  • MS tour to stop in Stratford
    THE BEACON HERALD - June 19, 2011 By BRIAN SHYPULA BEACON HERALD STAFF Tim Donovan, a national advocate for a groundbreaking treatment for MS sufferers, is making a stop in Stratford as part of his cross-Canada tour. He'll speak about the so-...
  • SIR: Use of angioplasty for MS requires research
    CARDIOVASCULAR BUSINESS - June 17, 2011 Written by Editorial Staff Using angioplasty to widen the jugular and azygos veins to improve blood flow to the brain could help prevent multiple sclerosis (MS) in patients with chronic cerebrospinal venous...
  • Province helps MS sufferers access treatment
    THE DAILY GLEANER - June 16, 2011 By ADAM HURAS A government fund to assist multiple sclerosis patients in New Brunswick receive medical services outside the province - including the controversial liberation therapy - is up and running. The...
  • New Brunswick launches fund for controversial multiple sclerosis treatment
    TORONTO STAR - June 15, 2011 The Canadian Press FREDERICTON-A government fund to help multiple sclerosis patients in New Brunswick seek medical services outside the province - including the so-called liberation therapy - is now in effect. Premier...
  • CCSVI treatment for MS focus of local session
    THE DAILY HERALD-TRIBUNE - June 14, 2011 | By ERIC PLUMMER | The 30-year old fog that had filled Darrell Watchorn's brain disappeared instantly as he lay on the surgeon's table. This was the experience the Grande Prairie resident recalled from a...
  • MS funding sparks medical ethics debate
    TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL - June 13, 2011 | By Polly Leger | SAINT JOHN - One of Canada's leading medical ethicists said provincial funding for experimental medicine is fine, so long as it follows clinical methodology. But a Saint John area doctor said...
  • MS patients understand concerns but support treatment
    THE DAILY GLEANER - June 11, 2011 | By ADAM BOWIE | People who believe a new multiple sclerosis treatment should be available in the Canadian health-care system say they understand why New Brunswick's physicians are approaching the issue...
  • MS patient tries Bulgaria again: VEIN WIDENING
    LONDON FREE PRESS - June 10, 2011 | By JONATHAN SHER | Pat O'Connor can't go anywhere without a walker or scooter so she says she'll return to Bulgaria to go under the knife a second time in a procedure that's divided health-care officials across...
  • N.B. doctors urge caution over MS treatment CBC News
    CBC NEWS - June 9, 2011 | By CBC News Staff | The New Brunswick Medical Society is warning multiple sclerosis patients to be cautious when pursuing alternative therapies outside of the province. The medical society's warning comes after the...
  • Bowmanville boogies to support MS treatment
    DURHAMREGION.COM - June 8, 2011 | By JENNIFER O'MEARA | OWMANVILLE -- The community is rallying to give a local woman with multiple sclerosis access to treatment in the United States. "It's very exciting. I've never had surgery before. I'm not...
  • Pioneering stem cell trial gives hope to MS sufferers
    THE HERALD SCOTLAND - JUNE 2, 2011 | By the Herald Scotland News Staff | PIONEERING research into bone marrow stem cell therapy that could help multiple sclerosis (MS) sufferers is to take place later this year. The trial on 80 MS patients will...
  • Niagara on the Lake woman with MS reaps benefits from 'liberation' treatment
    NIAGARAADVANCE.CA - June 2, 2011 | By PENNY COLES | Gail Martin has Multiple Sclerosis, and understands she will always have it. But that doesn't stop her from believing that the liberation treatment that has been the subject of such controversy...
  • MS conference hoping to provide information to patients
    ENERGETICCITY.CA - May 31, 2011 | By SEAN ASSOR | Two Canadian Doctors will be hosting a conference in Grande Prairie regarding a medical procedure for Multiple Sclerosis. On Saturday June 18, the Chronic Cerebro-Spinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI...
  • Medical tourism touted as part of health system
    OTTAWA CITIZEN - May 28, 2011 | By JORDAN PRESS, Postmedia News | Two years ago, Brendan King turned to a medical-tourism company to help book his trip. The man from Campbell River, B.C., was on his way to Costa Rica to receive a controversial...
  • Important time sensitive information
    CCSVI COALITION - MAY 27, 2011 | By JANET HEISEY | Please read the message below from CCSVI Coalition, and fill out and send the proxy ASAP by clicking this link. Forward their note to other MSers and also post it where ever you can. Read more...
  • Liberation has helped yet another MS sufferer
    MEDICINE HAT NEWS - MAY 26, 2011 | By GILLIAN SLADE | Miraculous is how Bev Downie sees the change in her daughter after receiving angioplasty, also known as liberation therapy, for multiple sclerosis in California recently. It was a journey of...
  • OPEN LETTER: CCSVI is starting to be correlated with other diseases now
    ST. LAWRENCE EMC - May 26, 2011 | By JUDY BUTCHER | Dear Editor: Dalton McGuinty, Tim Hudak, Andrea Horwath, tomorrow (hypothetically) will be a memorable day for you, because tomorrow, you will wake up seeing two of everything. You won't be able...
  • A 'New Hope' for MS
    THE GANDER BEACON - May 24, 2011 | By STEPHANIE STEIN | Tears filled the eyes of Tim Donovan, as he smiled and took a few people down the road of his hardship during the New Hope For Multiple Sclerosis 2011 Canada Tour stop in Gander, May 12. "I...
  • MS patient's mobility improves after experimental procedure
    INSIDEHALTON.COM - MAY 18, 2011 | By DENNIS SMITH, SPECIAL TO BURLINGTON POST | MS patient's mobility improves after experimental procedure Former Metroland photographer Barrie Erskine characterizes CCSVI surgery as 'a good birthday present' but...
  • First patients treated by CCSVI Foundation
    SIMCOE.COM - May 16 2011 | By SIMCOE.COM Staff | BARRIE - The local CCSVI Foundation has three surgeries booked for local MS patients. Steve Garvie created the foundation after having the angioplasty-type surgery more than a year ago. He said it...
  • Alberta woman's MS getting worse, months after liberation treatment
    REGINA LEADER POST - May 16, 2011 | By Chris Zdeb, Postmedia News; Edmonton Journal | Donna Romanuik stands up from her wheelchair and gives husband Chris a hug and kiss before he heads to the starting line alone for Sunday's annual Multiple...
  • MS message of hope visits Annapolis Valley
    NOVANEWSNOW.COM - May 16, 2011 | By WENDY ELLIOTT | Two New Brunswick men are hoping their four-month trip across the country will raise enough awareness about liberation therapy the Canadian government will approve the controversial treatment...
  • Final Thoughts on the Buffalo CCSVI Research Effort
    DIRECT-MS - May 16, 2011 | By DIRECT-MS STAFF | In their article and accompanying press release, the Buffalo researchers played a statistical trick by how they dealt with 52 “borderline” patients whom did not receive a complete Doppler assessment...
  • Feelings About Retenosis After Liberation Treatment
    ABOUT.COM - May 16, 2011 | By JULIE STACHOWIAK, Ph.D. | I have been wanting to write about this topic for awhile, ever since I heard the experience described by one person on a radio show. This woman described how she saved her money and got...
  • Groups host awareness sessions for MS patients
    THE BARRIE EXAMINER - May 15, 2011 | By Marg. Bruineman | The fight to get patients with multiple sclerosis access to a controversial procedure not available in Canada rages on. Steve Garvie was one of six patients to undergo the experimental...
  • Liberation doesn't mean freedom: MS patient
    THE WESTERN STAR - May 15, 2011 | By GARY KEAN | BENOIT'S COVE This time last year, Stephanie Boland was not all that interested in liberation therapy, the controversial new treatment that has helped make living with multiple sclerosis easier...
  • The Expert Patient: Who knows best, the doctor or the patient?
    NATIONAL POST - May 14, 2011 | By TOM BLACKWELL | Marcel Gignac does not mince words in his blog about the new, CCSVI theory of multiple sclerosis and how to treat it. He has called Nova Scotia's health minister a "murderer" for not funding the...
  • Alberta MS research crucial to new treatments and a cure
    EDMONTON JOURNAL - May 12, 2011 | By Edmonton Journal News Staff | MS research in Alberta is active, innovative and leading edge. Researchers at the Universities of Alberta and Calgary work together to investigate how the disease occurs, how to...
  • MS services face strain
    ALBERTALOCALNEWS.COM - May 11, 2011 | By CRYSTAL RHYNO - Red Deer Advocate | Services and resources for multiple sclerosis sufferers in Central Alberta may be reduced due to poor participation in two upcoming fundraising events. With less than...
  • 'LIBERATION PROCEDURE' - Two operations, poor results, but she is still a believer
    GLOBE AND MAIL - May 9, 2011 | By CARLY WEEKS | Lisa Cooper, a mother of three who lives in Mount Vernon, Wash., has had the "liberation procedure" twice, and despite paying high fees and experiencing disappointing results, she is still a firm...
  • Fissures in Zamboni's MS theory widen
    GLOBE AND MAIL - May 9, 2011 | By CARLY WEEKS | When international specialists in disorders of the nervous system gathered in Toronto last year for their discipline's largest annual conference, they were confronted one afternoon by two men...
  • Multiple sclerosis patients navigate the minefield of for-profit care
    GLOBE AND MAIL - May 9, 2011 | By CARLY WEEKS | When word spread that an Italian doctor had a treatment that miraculously seemed to relieve the suffering caused by multiple sclerosis, patients around the world saw hope. Others saw a business...
  • The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to review surgery for CCSVI
    NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CLINICAL EXCELLENCE(NICE)- May 6,2011 | By NICE Staff | Balloon angioplasty with or without stenting for chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) in MS Read more...
  • New Hope for MS - Cross-Canada journey to promote liberation treatment
    GLOBALTORONTO.COM - May 6, 2011 | By NICK LOGAN | FREDERICTON - Four months from now Tim Donovan and John McLaughlin hope they'll be able raise enough awareness about liberation therapy that the Canadian government will finally approve the...
  • New Brunswick plans fund to help pay for controversial treatment
    TIMESTRANSCRIPT.CANADAEAST.COM - May 6, 2011 | By ADAM HURAS | FREDERICTON - Two New Brunswickers with multiple sclerosis have launched a four-month nationwide tour to promote the benefits of the so-called liberation therapy, still seen as...
  • Cape Breton MLA wants N.S. to fund MS trials
    HALIFAX CHRONICLE HERALD - May 6, 2011 | By KELLY SHIERS and DAVID JACKSON | The pressure is on the NDP government to reconsider its decision not to pay for studies of a controversial and experimental treatment for Nova Scotians with multiple...
  • Settlement Reached In MS Drug Case .
    ONLINE.WSJ.COM - May 5, 2011 | By Associated Press Staff | Multinational drugmaker Merck Serono SA has agreed to pay $44.3 million to settle allegations that it illegally promoted one of its drugs using kickbacks to doctors, the U.S. Department of...
  • MS patients hold rallies for 'liberation therapy'
    CTV.CA - May 5, 2011 | By CTV.ca News Staff | Multiple sclerosis patients held rallies across the country Thursday, calling on Ottawa and provincial governments to make the controversial "liberation therapy" available in Canada. The therapy...
  • MP Duncan's first stop will be at the Toronto CCSVI Rally
    INSIDETORONTO.COM - May 3, 2011 | By Cynthia Reason | Etobicoke North: 'Hard-working' Duncan ready to fight for her community Childcare, post-secondary education, health care and jobs tops on priority list Read more...
  • CCSVI and MS about the study published on Neurology
    FONDAZIONE HILARESCERE - May 2, 2011 | By Francesca Rossini Manfredini | The study - conducted by the researchers at the University at Buffalo on the relationship between CCSVI and MS and published in Neurology (journal of the American Academy of...
  • Another first for Saskatchewan
    MEADOW LAKE PROGRESS - April 28, 2011 | By Janet Gibson | Kudos to Saskatchewan for being the first Canadian province to host clinical trials for the Liberation Treatment of people with multiple sclerosis. MS is a disabling disease of the brain...
  • Canadians with MS Rally for Health - Again!
    RALLYONTHEHILL.CA - April 27, 2011 | By Wendy Ireland | Demonstrations are planned May 5th across the country to highlight the cruel and unfair treatment that Canadians with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) are receiving from their governments....
  • 'Liberation' row proves need to put science in social media: report
    VANCOUVER SUN - APRIL 27, 2011 | By Margaret Munro | Canadians' extraordinary support for an unproven "liberation" treatment for multiple sclerosis has led to a call for the country's research community to get with social media. Read more...
  • May 5 CCSVI/MS Rally
    CCSVICALGARY.ORG - April 27, 2011 | By CCSVICALGARY.ORG Staff | MS/CCSVI Awareness Rally - McDougal Centre 455 6 St SW Calgary - May 5 2011 - 11:30 to 1:30pm Read more...
  • MS patients still believers
    THE BELLEVILLE INTELLIGENCER - April 23, 2011 | By Luke Hendry | New doubts about an experimental surgery for multiple sclerosis haven't shaken the faith of two local patients. Local MS patients Mike Martin and Margaret Hanley say they've...
  • YUKON SIGNS ON TO SASKATCHEWAN'S MS LIBERATION CLINICAL TRIALS
    GOV.SK.CA - April 21, 2011 | By Government of Saskatchewan Staff | Yukon Health and Social Services Minister Glenn Hart and Saskatchewan Health Minister Don McMorris today announced that Yukon will contribute to Saskatchewan's clinical trials on...
  • Yukon moves on controversial MS trial
    CBC.CA - April 21, 2011 | By CBC Staff | The Yukon government will spend up to $250,000 so Yukoners with multiple sclerosis can participate in the trials of a controversial treatment for the often disabling disease, which attacks the central...
  • Bowmanville woman to have 'liberation' surgery for MS
    NORTHUMBERLANDNEWS.COM - April 20, 2011| By Karen Longwell| BOWMANVILLE -- A Bowmanville resident hopes a surgery known as the 'liberation procedure' will relieve some of the symptoms she has battled with multiple sclerosis. Laura Scott grew up in...
  • First CCSVI walk successful
    SIMCOE.COM - April 20, 2011 | By SIMCOE.COM Staff | BARRIE - The inaugural walk for the CCSVI Foundation was held Sunday, April 17. Despite the unusually cold weather, the group raised $3,500. Steve Garvie, president of the foundation, was pleased...
  • Buffaloed: The anti-CCSVI Bias of the University of Buffalo Researchers and their Unsupported Interpretations
    FACEBOOK.COM/Notes/Direct MS, April 19, 2011 | Last week researchers from the University of Buffalo published the results of their 2009 research on the prevalence of CCSVI in various groups of people including 289 persons with MS, 21 persons who...
  • Recent MS study illustrates need for sound science
    SASKATOON STAR PHOENIX - April 18, 2011 | By Saskatoon Star Phoenix Staff | A journal article last week that reported blocked neck veins in multiple sclerosis patients could be a sign of the disease rather than its cause grabbed lots of attention...
  • Science must prevail regarding MS treatment
    ST. CATHERINES STANDARD - April 18, 2011 | By BRIAN MACLEOD | New evidence suggests the Canadian government's decision not to fund a controversial multiple sclerosis treatment was prudent. Eureka moments in medical research are rare. So when they...
  • MACLEANS: The Rorschach test of CCSVI research
    MACLEANS - Monday, April 18, 2011 | by Anne Kingston | F. Scott Fitzgerald once famously wrote “The sign of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function...
  • UBC to track controversial MS treatment
    METRO EDMONTON - April 18, 2011 | BY JAMES KELLER | VANCOUVER - Researchers at the University of British Columbia's multiple sclerosis clinic are working to establish standards of care for patients who have travelled abroad to receive a...
  • Docs Say CCSVI Treatment is Safe
    ABOUT.COM Guide - April 16, 2011 | By Julie Stachowiak, Ph.D. | The treatment for cerebrospinal venous insuffienciency (CCSVI) in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) is usually balloon angioplasty - the procedure is often called "Liberation...
  • SPEAKING FROM THE HEART
    -----Original Message----- From: Cardio Abroad, daniela@cardioabroad.com To: Lawrence Bibby, laserbib@netscape.net Sent: Fri, Apr 15, 2011 4:32 pm Dear Friends, At long last, the analysis report of the first 350 patients treated for CCSVI by The...
  • MS patients may prefer new therapies regardless of risk
    NEURO-SENS.COM - April 14, 2011 | HONOLULU, HAWAII, APRIL 9-16, 2011 - MS patients are inclined to accept new therapies regardless of the potential risks, according to a survey conducted by Wayne State University in the period 2007-2009 (Caon et al...
  • MS vein therapy study still a go: Alberta health minister ― Recent U.S. study suggests blocked neck veins result, not cause, of MS
    CBC NEWS - April 14, 2011 | By CBC News Staff | Alberta's health minister says he won't cut off funding to study a controversial multiple sclerosis treatment despite a recent report casting doubt on the vein therapy. The province has already...
  • N.B. to help MS patients seek controversial treatment despite new concerns
    CANADIAN PRESS - April 14, 2011 | By The Canadian Press Staff | FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government says it will help multiple sclerosis patients get the so-called liberation therapy to open narrowed neck veins, even though a new report on...
  • 2 doctors react to MS study ― One says carefully consider CCSVI surgery, the other says the study is flawed
    CBC NEWS - April 14, 2011 | By CBC News Staff | A new study has cast doubt on the theory that blocked or narrowed veins are a main cause of MS, study author Dr. Robert Zivadinov of the University of Buffalo said. The findings published Wednesday...
  • CCSVI: Supporting evidence lacking; three new studies
    NEURO-SENS.COM - April 13, 2011 | REPORT FROM THE 63rd ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY (AAN), HONOLULU, HAWAII, APRIL 9-16, 2011- Three new studies presented at the AAN annual meeting have failed to provide supportive evidence...
  • Money is well spent on MS Liberation trials
    CARMAN VALLEY LEADER - April 13, 2011 | By GENE STILL | This is one of those cases where it's an understatement to say "better late than never". Last week the Manitoba and Saskatchewan governments announced they would jointly fund clinical trials...
  • MS vein blocking doubted
    CBC NEWS - April 13, 2011 | By CBC News Staff | People with multiple sclerosis may show blocked neck veins as a result of the disease rather than as a cause, a large study published Wednesday suggests. The findings cast doubt on the theory that...
  • Woman loses limp following liberation therapy
    DELHI NEWS-RECORD - April 13, 2011 | By MONTE SONNENBERG | Tammy Gooding of Stoney Creek used to walk with a limp. In fact, her mobility problems were so bad that her family sold a cottage up north because she could not get in and out of a boat...
  • Sask NDP Say One Thing, Do Another
    SKPARTYCAUCUS - April 12, 2011 | Saskatchewan Health Minister Don McMorris calls out NDP health critic Judy Junor over the latest NDP flip-flop. Watch the link on youtube.com...
  • Multiple sclerosis: the facts and fictions
    THE TELEGRAPH - April 11, 2011 | By Prof Peter Behan and Simone Hutchinson | Some researchers into multiple sclerosis believe they have found the cause of the mysterious disease. But the celebrations are premature, say Prof Peter Behan and Simone...
  • CTV NEWS: One year later, MS patients track their progress
    CTV.CA - April 10, 2011 | By CTV.ca News Staff | A year later, five Canadian multiple sclerosis patients have reported their progress to CTV News, and there are positive signs for some from a new MS treatment. Last year, Lianne Webb was flattened...
  • Alberta faces increased pressure for CCSVI trials
    CTVEDMONTON.CA - April 10, 2011 | By JESSICA EARLE | The Stelmach administration will soon receive a petition calling for research into a new MS treatment that's been performed on thousands around the world. It's a push that comes as a packed...
  • City woman flying high after controversial MS treatment
    The St. Catherines Standard - April 8, 2011 | By DON FRASER | For Elizabeth Murphy, multiple sclerosis has been a longtime ball-and-chain. But after undergoing the controversial treatment this week called liberation therapy, she said shes already...
  • CBC: Some with MS redoing vein therapy
    CBC News (www.cbc.ca) - April 8, 2011 | By CBC News Staff | Less than a year after some Saskatchewan people with multiple sclerosis underwent controversial vein therapy in Europe, some are having the out-of-country treatments done over again. Last...
  • WAITING TO BE LIBERATED; No local medical support
    THE BEACON - April 8, 2011 | By STEPHANIE STEIN | Sandy Collins, 41, of Wareham has been living with chronic Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for over 20 years, and in December, she received Liberation Treatment in India with the hopes of being liberated...
  • CCSVI treatment gives local woman hopeful results
    Smith Falls EMC - April 7, 2011 | By STACEY ROY | It was an exhausting trip to the other side of the globe, but Judy Butcher got what she was looking for - some improvement to her Multiple Sclerosis (MS) symptoms. Earlier last month the Smiths...
  • MS treatments should be done here
    Williams Lake Tribune - April 7, 2011 | By WALT COBB | We just arrived back from a week in the U.S. receiving some medical treatment for Lynnette's multiple sclerosis. The U.S. is one of many countries that allows a treatment called Chronic...
  • Manitoba Invests in MS Research Clinical Trials
    Manitoba patients suffering from multiple sclerosis will soon be able to take part in liberation therapy for their illness without incurring the cost of traveling half way around the world. The Manitoba government has announced a partnership with...
  • CBC - MS Treatment: Should the federal government fund exploratory treatments?
    CBC - April 6, 2011 | By COMMUNITY TEAM | The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada has achieved its $10-million goal for trial research into a new type of therapy that is currently not available in Canada. On Tuesday, Manitoba announced it would...
  • SASKATCHEWAN AND MANITOBA PARTNER ON MS LIBERATION CLINICAL TRIAL RESEARCH
    WWW.GOV.SK.CA/NEWS - April 5, 2011 | Government of Saskatchewan News Release | Premier Greg Selinger and Premier Brad Wall announced today that Manitoba and Saskatchewan are working together to advance clinical trial research on the Multiple...
  • MS patient feeling great six months after liberation procedure
    The Southern Gazette - April 5, 2011 | By PAUL HERRIDGE | Perry Goodyear of Grand Bank is feeling great six months after undergoing the MS liberation treatment in the United States. He's pictured with his daughter, Robyn, sitting at home on the...
  • Manitoba commits $5-million for clinical trials of MS therapy
    WINNIPEG—The Canadian Press - April 5, 2011 | By Laura Scott Edmonds | Clinical trials of so-called liberation therapy for people with multiple sclerosis got a $5-million boost Tuesday from Manitoba, which has decided to partner with its neighbour...
  • Experts see risks of artery devices
    NATIONAL POST - April 2, 2011| By TOM BLACKWELL | The medical devices for treating neck-vein narrowing that Dr. Paolo Zamboni describes in a series of patent applications are raising eyebrows, with some experts suggesting they might increase the...
  • St. Thomas man takes MS battle to U.S.
    ST. THOMAS TIMES-JOURNAL - April 2, 2011 | By PATRICK BRENNAN | It's called Liberation Treatment and that's exactly the relief Ken Roberts is hoping it will bring him. Roberts, 35, has multiple sclerosis and has been battling it since his early...
  • The Cost of Multiple Sclerosis, the Story needs to be told
    From: "Jacinthe Gomes" Date: March 31, 2011 11:18:23 PM PDT Subject: letter to the editor Good morning, Attached is a letter that I felt I had to write after Barb & I went to the MS Clinic in Kelowna. We don’t know if they did put up the poster...
  • SIR: Vascular MS Treatments Safe, but Efficacy Unclear
    MEDPAGE TODAY - March 31, 2011 | By Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer | MedPage Today Action Points •Note that these studies were published as abstracts and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be...
  • Interventional Radiologists Advance MS Research: Vein-Opening Treatment Safe
    CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM - March 28, 2011 | By ChicagoPressRelease Staff | Understanding that angioplasty-a medical treatment used by interventional radiologists to widen the veins in the neck and chest to improve blood flow-is safe may encourage...
  • Alberta MS Observational Study Update
    Date: March 28, 2011 To: Dennis and Hazel Young (dhyoung@shaw.ca) Subject: MS OBSERVATIONAL STUDY – MARCH, 2011 UPDATE I am writing to provide you with an update on the progress we are making in Alberta to support research into the safety and...
  • MS patient feels like she has awakened from 14 years of sleep
    THE WESTERN STAR - March 26, 2011 | By CORY HURLEY | A couple of months after treatment, the woman - who spent the past 14 years in a wheelchair, had trouble staying awake, was always fatigued, had constantly cold legs, and had little ability to...
  • MS Society spokesperson: "We are sorry" - not enough empathy for MS patients
    CTV NEWS EDMONTON - March 26, 2011 | By Nahreman Issa, ctvedmonton.ca | PA member of the Alberta chapter of the MS Society of Canada is apologizing, saying the society should have been more supportive of the controversial CCSVI treatment. Speaking...
  • Life returns for MS sufferer following U.S. surgery
    EMC NEPEAN/BARRHAVEN - March 24, 2011 | By STEPH WILLEMS | Talking with Barrhaven's Sharon Taylor in October of last year, it was clear that the Multiple Sclerosis sufferer was desperate to find a way to escape a future that looked painful and...
  • Shedding light on MS
    From Friday's Globe and Mail, March 24, 2011 | By PAUL TAYLOR | This week, federal health minister Leona Aglukkaq asked the Canadian Institute of Health Information to set up a national registry to help evaluate treatments for multiple sclerosis...
  • A parent’s multiple sclerosis can take heavy toll on children
    WASHINGTONPOST.COM - March 24, 2011 | By PETULA DVORAK | Alice is a 19-year-old woman who blogs anonymously about changing her mother’s diapers. She lies to people about why she has no life and posts heartbreaking confessions about ignoring her...
  • Make liberation therapy available in Canada, MP Hughes urges
    SOOTODAY.COM - March 23, 2011 | By SooToday.Com Staff | Demand for CCSVI treatment growing: Hughes Joins other New Democrats calling for liberation therapy in Canada Read more...
  • Ottawa to set up national MS surveillance system
    TORONTO STAR - March 23, 2011 | By JOANNA SMITH, Ottawa Bureau | OTTAWA-The Conservative government is setting up a national surveillance system to better monitor the symptoms and treatment of multiple sclerosis across the country, the Star has...
  • MP Allen urges MS study
    ST. CATHARINES STANDARD - March 23, 2011 | By GRANT LAFLECHE | Malcolm Allen says he wants to be clear. He isn't asking for the moon. He isn't asking for carte blanche funding. All he wants is a single study. "Right now they are saying we need to...
  • MACLEANS: 'This is what it must feel like to witness medical history in the making'
    MACLEANS.CA, March 22, 2011 | By ANNE KINGSTON | Notes from the first annual meeting of the International Society of Neurovascular Diseases Read more...
  • PATIENTS LOSING PATIENCE
    LONDON FREE PRESS, March 21, 2011 | By London Free Press Staff | Despite spending almost $200 billion on health care each year, Canadians flock out of country each year to get medical treatment they can't get on time, or at all. The London Free...
  • Guidance on Neurologic After-Care for CCSVI Procedures
    Medscape Medical News > Neurology, March 21, 2011 | Guidance on Neurologic After-Care for CCSVI Procedures By Susan Jeffrey | At least 2 Canadian provinces are moving to ensure proper neurologic follow-up care for patients with multiple...
  • Out of the fog
    LONDON FREE PRESS, March 21, 2011 | By RANDY RICHMOND | PATIENTS LOSING PATIENCE: When she couldn't get a controversial surgical procedure to relieve symptoms of multiple sclerosis done in Ontario, Londoner Susan Skeffington turned to Arizona. So...
  • On The Road to Liberation?
    FAVSTOCKS.COM, March 20, 2011 | By PENSION PULSE | In June last year I was interviewed by The Daily Telegraph about my battle – and failure – to obtain a diagnosis of, and treatment (if required) for, CCSVI in Britain and my decision to seek help...
  • Forced to seek MS treatment in U.S
    THE WINDSOR STAR, March 17, 2011 | By JACKIE McCREARY | We just had the most amazing and successful fundraiser at the Fogolar Furlan for my husband, Barry Ashby. He suffers with multiple sclerosis (MS), has narrowed neck veins and goes to...
  • Alex Harrold returns home after receiving liberation treatment
    THENORWESTER.CA,March 17, 2011 | By RUDY NORMAN | Alex Harrold says compared to how he felt this time last month, today he feels liberated. In fact, he says it's a safe bet to say he feels better than he has in the last 10 years. "It's quite...
  • Advancing MS Research: A Look at a Vein-opening Treatment
    PRNEWSWIRE.COM, March 16, 2011 | By PRNEWSWIRE Staff | Society of Interventional Radiology Hosts 36th Annual Scientific Meeting High-quality, Efficient, Minimally Invasive Medical Treatments Showcased March 26-31 in Chicago, Ill. Read more...
  • CTV - Neurologist investigates MS theory for son's sake
    CTV.CA, March 14, 2011 | By News Staff | A controversial treatment for multiple sclerosis will come under international scrutiny at a conference in Italy this week. Among the research to be discussed is a paper by a doctor who was intrigued by the...
  • Editorial: Chronic cerebral spinal venous insufficiency in multiple sclerosis
    WWW.EXPERT-REVIEWS.COM, March 14, 2011 | By E. Mark Haacke | Editorial: Chronic cerebral spinal venous insufficiency in multiple sclerosis Expert Rev. Neurother. 11(1), 5-9 (2011) By E. Mark Haacke, Director, The MRI Institute for Biomedical...
  • Ontario MS treatment care guidelines questioned
    THE BARRIE EXAMINER, March 14, 2011 | By MARG. BRUINEMAN | Support at home for those who have had controversial treatment for multiple sclerosis abroad is necessary, although local patients are skeptical that a new initiative will do the trick. A...
  • Stratford man revels in new hope
    THE BEACON HERALD, March 14, 2011 | By MIKE BEITZ | There's no getting around the fact that multiple sclerosis has had a significant impact on Jim Thomson and his wife Paula. Since he was first diagnosed with the degenerative disease in 1973, it...
  • Journal of Vascular & Interventional Radiology: March 2011
    VOLUME 22, ISSUE 3, SUPPLEMENT | Abstract No. 3: Safety of outpatient endovascular treatment of the internal jugular and azygos veins for chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency(CCSVI) in multiple sclerosis: A retrospective analysis Read more...
  • Little Parry Sound has big heart
    COTTAGECOUNTRYNOW.COM - April 13, 2011 | By STEVEN DUFF | Parry Sound is certainly a little town with a big heart and it gives me enormous pleasure, as I have had occasion to do in the past, to comment on the latest community exploit. I refer to...
  • It's not always liberation
    METRO CALGARY, March 11, 2011 | By CAROLINA NOVOTNY | When Calgarian Melissa Lawson-Larsen lost all feeling in her face from the nose down, she thought she was having a stroke. So she headed to the emergency room. Once inside, Larsen disclosed...
  • How Ginger turned her life around
    METRO NEWS, March 11, 2011 | By CAROLINA NOVOTNY | Ginger MacQueen was considering assisted suicide because of her deteriorating MS - but then she turned her life around with the CCSVI treatment. On March 30, Ginger MacQueen will celebrate the one...
  • Kirsty Duncan MP speaks up for MS patients
    From: Dr. Kirsty Duncan MP Subject: Up-date re. CCSVI activities To: "'Dr. Kirsty Duncan MP'" Date: Friday, March 11, 2011, 7:43 PM Hello and warm wishes. Before I begin, I want to pay tribute to all of you, who bravely fight MS every day, and who...
  • New MS fight
    MERIDIAN BOOSTER, March 10, 2011 | By ALLISON WALL | MS Society needs to take a louder advocacy role in regards to liberation treatments, says an official. The MS Society needs to take a louder advocacy role in regards to liberation treatments,...
  • Doctors given MS liberation guidelines
    CALGARY HERALD, March 8, 2011 | By JAMIE KOMARNICKI | Alberta physicians are being offered new guidelines -but not official policy -on how to provide followup care to patients who have gone abroad for a controversial new multiple sclerosis...
  • 'MS experts in Britain have to open their minds’
    THE TELEGRAPH, March 7, 2011 | By MARK WALKER | Last July, we reported on the battle by MS sufferer Mark Walker to have a controversial new treatment not recognised in Britain. Here, he tells how his condition has improved since having it abroad...
  • Alberta doctors advised how to treat MS liberation patients
    WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, March 4, 2011 | By: The Canadian Press | EDMONTON - Alberta doctors are being told there isn't a lot of information on how to provide followup care for multiple sclerosis patients who have undergone an unproven procedure...
  • Patient spurns panel
    ST. THOMAS TIMES-JOURNAL, March 3, 2011 | By KYLE REA | The province has struck a panel of experts to look at multiple sclerosis patients who've undergone a controversial procedure overseas, and to see how best to care and provide treatment for...
  • Society of Interventional Radiology Showcases High-quality, Efficient Medical Treatments Interventional Radiologists Revolutionize Modern Medicine
    PRNEWSWIRE.COM, March 3, 2011 | By PRNewswire Staff | The Society of Interventional Radiology will feature minimally invasive scientific advances and new discoveries in treating a host of diseases at its 36th Annual Scientific Meeting March 26-...
  • Trust fund set up for local MS sufferer’s treatment
    Guelphmercury.com - March 2, 2011 | By Mercury Staff | GUELPH - A trust account has been set up for a Guelph man seeking a treatment for multiple sclerosis that isn't available in Canada. Joe Longo heads to a clinic on Providence, Rhode Island...
  • Two provinces moving on follow-up care for MS liberation therapy
    GLOBE AND MAIL - March 2, 2011 | By KAREN HOWLETT | Two provinces are leading the push for national guidelines to end the ambiguity around follow-up care for Canadians with multiple sclerosis who travel outside the country for a controversial new...
  • McGuinty Government Establishes Expert Panel To Provide Advice On Best Practices
    ONTARIO NEWSROOM - March 1, 2011 | Ontario is establishing an expert advisory group to provide advice on follow-up care and treatment for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) who return to Ontario after undergoing the experimental Chronic Cerebro-...
  • Phillip Janes travelling overseas for Zamboni treatment
    NL NEWS NOW, February 28, 2011 | By BRODIE THOMAS | A Port aux Basques family says they've been overwhelmed by the support they've received from the community to help fund their son's trip to Bulgaria for medical treatment.Phillip Janes,...
  • Local woman travels to Egypt for medical treatment
    KEMPTVILLE EMC - February 24, 2011 | By Stacey Roy | EMC News - At least one Smiths Falls area home was celebrating the night Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak announced he was stepping down due to public pressure. Judy Butcher is scheduled to...
  • Kingston woman opts for ‘Liberation’ from MS
    KINGSTON THIS WEEK, February 24, 2011 | By MARTHA TANNER | With her wavy red-gold hair and light scattering of freckles, Darcie Kelly looks younger than her 31 years. Perhaps it was because she was a dancer for over 20 years. On the outside,...
  • Local Woman Set For Controversial MS Treatment
    SOONEWS.CA, February 23, 2011 | By SooNews Stasff | It has been said that when one is well and healthy he or she has many wishes and dreams.but when one is ill, he or she typically has only one wish-to be well and feel well again. This was the...
  • Scientists look to new imaging techniques to measure metals in the brain
    GLOBE AND MAIL, February 21, 2011 | BY: ANNE McILROY, SCIENCE REPORTER | We are metal heads. Our brains need iron, copper, manganese and zinc to function, yet there is growing evidence that these metals may play a role in Alzheimer's disease,...
  • MS patients complain of inadequate care in Canada after liberation therapy
    GLOBE AND MAIL - February 18, 2011 | By CAROLINE ALPHONSO | Hundreds of people with multiple sclerosis travel thousands of kilometres and shell out even more money for controversial out-of-country surgery. They return home to government promises...
  • Hughes brings growing cry for liberation therapy to Parliament
    WAWA-NEWS.COM - February 17, 2011 | Written by Carol Hughes, MP Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing | Many Canadians living with MS see hope in the Chronic Cerebro-Spinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) surgery treatment and feel it should be made...
  • Doctor, MS patient urges 'liberation' trials
    SASKATOON STAR PHOENIX - February 17, 2011 | By Lana Haight, The StarPhoenix | Dr. Bill Code returned to Saskatchewan with a message for his home province, where the highest rate of multiple sclerosis in the world is found. "It's time we started...
  • Back on his feet
    CRESTON NEWS ADVERTISER - February 11, 2011 | By AMY HANSEN CNA staff reporter | LENOX — The symptoms were there. For Dan Jordan of Lenox it was hard to go up and down the stairs. His knees would lock up and hands would fall asleep at the steering...
  • Update provided on multiple sclerosis observational study
    ST. JOHN'S TELEGRAM - February 8, 2011 | Twenty-nine patients have been or are being enrolled in the multiple sclerosis observational study announced in the fall of 2010 by the province’s Department of Health and Community Services. The goal for...
  • Local MS sufferes throw support behind Reformed MS group
    THE WEEKLY PRESS - February 8, 2011 | By Angele Cano | ENFIELD: Angela MacDonald looks forward to the day when her mother-in-law can stand up to embrace her, something she can’t do because of the debilitating effects of Multiple Sclerosis (MS)....
  • U.S. specialists in competition for Canadian MS patients
    VANCOUVER SUN - February 8, 2011 | By Sharon Kirkey, Postmedia News | American doctors are clamouring for Canadian multiple sclerosis patients who are travelling abroad for a controversial treatment they can't get at home, a U.S. neurologist says...
  • Over $13,000 raised during MS Liberation fundraiser ― Organizers impressed by community support
    THE VALLEY LEADER - February 7, 2011 | By Gene Still | Stormy winter weather failed to stop organizers of an MS Liberation treatment fundraiser from having a successful evening. One of the main organizers, Kathryn Reimer, said they raised just...
  • Treatment liberates patient ― Ms symptoms improve for one woman
    SOUTHSHORENOW.CA - February 7, 2011 | By Paula Levy | FARMINGTON - It has been over a month since Geraldine Wagner returned home after receiving treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) outside of Canada. She opted to go to Rhode Island for...
  • A New Disease Model for Multiple Sclerosis
    DIRECT-MS ― February 3, 2011 | by Ashton Embry, | A disease model is a hypothesis for what causes a disease and how it progresses. A model is developed using all the available empirical data which have accumulated for the disease and combining...
  • Women receives life altering procedure not available in Canada
    Peace River Record Gazette - February 2, 2011 | By Erin Steele, Record-Gazette | After two hours in recovery following a medical procedure, Lana Dziengielewski, who was diagnosed with the degenerate disease Multiple Sclerosis in 1997, got out of...
  • Leading experts to discuss latest advances in Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis
    PHYSORG.COM - February 2, 2011 | By University of South Florida (USF Health) | Some of the country's leading physicians and researchers in the fields of Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis will gather later this month to discuss the latest...
  • Venous Stenting and CCSVI ~ Dr. Hewett presentation January 29, 2011 (Seattle)
    FACEBOOK - February 1, 2011 | by CCSVI at UBC MS Clinic - Information and Support | "Driving down the side streets will never be as fast as driving down the highway" ~ Dr. Joseph Hewett commenting on collateral veins and why we need to treat...
  • "Multiple sclerosis is a complication of venous hypertension" ~ Dr. Michael Arata
    FACEBOOK - February 1, 2011 | by CCSVI at UBC MS Clinic - Information and Support | MS in a new light -- CCSVI ~ Dr. Michael Arata presentation January 29, 2011 (Seattle) Dr. Arata wanted to share some of his observations based on one year of...
  • Manitoba pushing national trial for MS treatment
    Liberation Treatment CCSVI.com - February 1, 2011 | Manitoba Health Minister Theresa Oswald on Monday sought support from other Canadian leaders to launch a nationwide clinical trial to test the efficacy of a controversial multiple sclerosis...
  • Research Teams Report Progress from First Six Months of 2-Year Projects Focusing on CCSVI and MS
    NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY - January 31, 2011 | Six-month progress reports from seven multi-disciplinary teams investigating CCSVI (chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency) in MS indicate that they have established rigorous protocols,...
  • Therapy offers hope to MS sufferer
    THE SUDBURY STAR - January 31, 2011 | By RITA POLIAKOV | Linda Dugas used to work. She used to walk, socialize and live without medication. Then, her multiple sclerosis sped up. "You lose your independence," said Dugas, 46, in her Lively home....
  • Doctor Challenges Cause Of MS And Treatment
    NPR - January 31, 2011 | by Gretchen Cuda Kroen | One day 7 years ago, after a long walk with his dog along the Hudson River in Manhattan, Marc Stecker noticed he was limping. Not long after, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. "Fast...
  • M.S. Recovery Story – Sandi Selvi’s New Stem-Cell Transplant Memoir May Hold Key to Curing M.S.
    PRWeb - January 27, 2011 | By Nancy Cleary | Saratoga, CA (PRWEB) April 14, 2010 March is M.S. Awareness Month and the same time Sandi Selvi celebrated the ten-year anniversary of a successful stem-cell transplant and remission from M.S. in her...
  • MS patient gets 'liberation' therapy abroad, struggles to find followup care at home
    MONTREAL GAZETTE - January 26, 2011 | By Hannah Scissons, Postmedia News | Saskatchewan man suffering from multiple sclerosis who travelled abroad to receive the controversial "liberation" therapy says he had difficulty getting followup care in...
  • Sask. to hear plans for trials
    GLOBAL TV - January 26, 2011 | By Angela Hall, Leader-Post | Research groups that want to conduct clinical trials of the "liberation" procedure for multiple sclerosis can now submit their plans for consideration, as Saskatchewan takes another step...
  • Liberals blast Tories over MS treatment
    GLOBAL TV - January 26, 2011 | By Tom Blackwell, National Post | The federal Liberals are accusing the Conservative government of “bungling” its approach to a controversial new treatment for multiple sclerosis, helping to give the extraordinary...
  • Should interventionalists treat MS? Patient advocacy drives "wildfire" as experts wait for data
    THEHEART.ORG - JANUARY 24, 2011 | By Michael O'Riordan | Miami Beach, FL - The International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET) 2011 kicked off last week with a full-house town-hall meeting dedicated to discussions on the possible link...
  • Controversial MS Therapies
    Dr. Chavdar Botev, MD, Stem Cell Specialist and Ruth Simonyi-Gindele on Global News TV - January 22, 2011
  • Shawna Johnston not ‘overly impressed’ with study
    THE HANNA HERALD - January 21, 2011 | By Jules S. Xavier | Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) just before her 30th birthday, Hanna's Shawna Johnston is not overly impressed with a study being done on the safety and effects of venous procedures...
  • CCSVI and Stem Cell Therapy: Next Big Breakthrough for MS?
    Dr. Chavdar Botev, M.D. is one of the world’s leading specialists pioneering the use of stem cell therapy for regenerative medicine – particularly for neurological diseases including multiple sclerosis. Dr. Botev is the co-founder and Medical...
  • Vein-Opening Treatment for MS Stirs Controversy ― Preliminary research shows it may reduce fatigue, but intense doubt remains
    BLOOMBERG BUSINESS WEEK - EXECUTIVE HEALTH - January 18, 2011 | By Jenifer Goodwin, HealthDay Reporter | TUESDAY, Jan. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Preliminary research and reports from patients suggest that a controversial treatment for multiple...
  • 23rd annual International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET) ― Controversial MS Treatment Lessens Fatigue, Research at ISET 2011 Shows
    ISET2011 - January 17, 2011 | MIAMI BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients may get some relief from severe fatigue from an experimental procedure to open blocked blood vessels in the chest and neck, suggests preliminary...
  • It's Official!!! Dr. Zamboni's clinical trial is approved--Brave Dreams--
    by FACEBOOK - CCSVI in Multiple Sclerosis - January 15, 2011 | STUDY "BRAVE DREAMS": Testing the processing directed by prof. Paolo Zamboni The Ethics Committee of Ferrara has approved the experimental protocol of randomized controlled trials to...
  • Heading to India to receive MS Liberation Treatment
    THE VALLEY LEADER - January 13, 2011 | By Gene Still | For Carman's Jolene Stevenson is a chance to improve her health when coping with the effects of multiple sclerosis. Stevenson, who is in her 30s, is preparing to leave for Pune, India for...
  • Fundraiser planned to help offset MS Liberation Treatment
    CARMAN VALLEY LEADER - January 13, 2011 | By Gene Still | It's about helping a family. That's how Tanya Wanders describes her efforts organizing a fundraiser for Carman's Jolene Stevenson. Jolene is heading to Pune, India to receive the...
  • Portager swears by MS procedure that isn’t allowed in Canada
    THE DAILY GRAPHIC AND CENTRAL PLAINS HERALD-LEADER - January 12, 2011 | Portage la Prairie News By Rob Swystun, The Daily Graphic | Portage la Prairie resident Dave Oshust spent Tuesday painting his kitchen. What makes the feat remarkable is...
  • The future looks bright
    Vernon Morning Star - January 11, 2011 | By Cara Brady | Lisa Kongsdorf went through a dark time in her life last fall but the future is looking bright. A month after having the controversial Liberation Treatment for multiple sclerosis she feels...
  • Liberation therapy fails to bring dramatic results for Sudbury man
    SUBURY NORTHERN LIFE - January 10, 2011 | By: Heidi Ulrichsen - Sudbury Northern Life Staff | Wayne Mogensen said his recent trip to Poland to receive liberation therapy treatment for his multiple sclerosis (MS) didn’t have the effect he would...
  • Study reveals why multiple sclerosis hits more women
    HERALD SCOTLAND - January 10, 2011 | By Rebecca Gray | Scientists believe they have discovered the reason why multiple sclerosis affects more women than men. A new study has shown women with MS are more likely to carry a gene linked to the...
  • Winnipeg-based clinic accused of pressuring patients into overseas MS treatment
    THE VANCOUVER SUN - January 8, 2011 | By Melissa Martin, Postmedia News | WINNIPEG — Tens of thousands of dollars have flowed from multiple sclerosis patients to a Winnipeg-based company that is now coming under fire for "pressuring" patients to...
  • Controversial MS treatment to be explained
    TIMES & TRANSCRIPT - January 8, 2011 | Many New Brunswickers with multiple sclerosis are turning their thoughts to the controversial 'liberation treatment' pioneered by an Italian doctor, even if it means having to raise thousands of dollars...
  • MS patient finds hope after treatment in U.S.
    The Brantford Expositor - January 8, 2011 | By HEATHER IBBOTSON | Multiple sclerosis has robbed Dave Stevenson of many joys in life, but the 56-year-old Brantford resident feels that he's been given a second chance after undergoing treatment...
  • Time for governments to get on board with helping those with MS
    THE BELLEVILLE INTELLIGENCER - January 8, 2011 | By Mike Martin Frankford | Letters The following was submitted as a letter to the editor I've had MS for almost 30 years and have just returned from Pacific Interventional in the United States for...
  • Feeling great after treatment
    BRANDON SUN - January 7, 2011 | I have been back in Canada for 10 days. It has been 13 days since I received the liberation treatment in Merida, Mexico, and I feel great! Firstly, for those suffering with MS, I would like to tell you that the...
  • Local MS patient praises results of controversial new therapy
    FRONTENAC EMC - January 6, 2011 | BY HOLLIE PRATT-CAMPBELL | EMC Lifestyle - One of the biggest health stories of 2010 was undoubtedly the controversial new liberation treatment, a procedure that involves opening the jugular veins of Multiple...
  • Beware of politicians playing doctor
    NATIONAL POST - January 5, 2011 | By Chris Selley | Mainstream medical opinion is roundly skeptical of Paolo Zamboni's "liberation" treatment for multiple sclerosis, but that's not to say the Italian surgeon won't one day be vindicated. As many...
  • Study to get underway will look at clogged veins as a cause of MS
    NIAGARA ADVANCE - January 5, 2011 | By Penny Coles | Niagara-on-the-Lake photographer Rachel Spiewak received the Christmas present she was hoping for—one that she is thrilled to be sharing with her best friend. Her friend of almost 20 years,...
  • Controversial MS treatment ‘changed my life’
    HAMILTON SPECTATOR - January 5, 2010 | By Denise Davy | John Reid has his sister to thank for his decision to fly to Costa Rica for the controversial treatment for multiple sclerosis. Reid, 51, who is from Newfoundland and his sister, Mary Jacobs...
  • Liberals blast Tories over MS treatment
    NATIONAL POST - January 4, 2011 | By Tom Blackwell | The federal Liberals are accusing the Conservative government of “bungling” its approach to a controversial new treatment for multiple sclerosis, helping to give the extraordinary scientific...
  • Winnipeg actress to have MS therapy
    CBC NEWS - January 3, 2010 | A Winnipeg playwright and actress with Multiple Sclerosis is hoping to soon travel to Costa Rica to receive a controversial medical treatment known as liberation therapy. Debbie Patterson was diagnosed with MS more...
  • MS sufferer expressed anger at having to leave UK for assisted suicide
    THE SENTINEL - January 3, 2011 | By Aimi Redfern | A MULTIPLE sclerosis sufferer who ended his life in a Swiss "assisted suicide" clinic left behind a poignant letter describing his frustration at having to go abroad to die. Andrew Colgan, who...
  • MS treatment will be put to the test
    HAMILTON SPECTATOR - December 30, 2010 | By Sheryl Ubelacker | A year ago, a theory about a potential contributing cause of multiple sclerosis burst into the public consciousness. It seemed an answer to the prayers of many MS sufferers. By the...
  • Throw away her cane
    OTTAWA CITIZEN - December 30, 2010 | By Jerry Firth, Brockville | Oh! The shame. Our leaders can't find it in their hearts to finance the "liberation" treatment, the new breakthrough on multiple sclerosis by Dr. Paolo Zamboni. Yet, they can use...
  • Story Check-Up: Single mom liberated by MS treatment ― Controversial surgery gives Valerie MacNeil her life back
    THE PROVINCE - December 29, 2010 | By Damian Inwood | Victoria single mom Valerie Mac-Neil is looking forward to her best Christmas season in years. "My biggest gift is my energy," she said. "It will be wonderful being able to go out and see...
  • Local MS patient benefits from controversial treatment in India
    THE DRUMHELLER MAIL - December 28, 2010 | By Kyle Smylie | On December 16, Alberta committed $1 million to fund observational studies on Canadian MS sufferers who have travelled out of country to receive the much debated “liberation treatment”....
  • A truly amazing story...
    By MS-CCCSVI EIRE - December 28, 2010 | Cindy Fulton - I would like to share my story with all of you as I think maybe it could help with the CCSVI fight. I live in Northern Ontario and have been fighting MS for 22 years. I am almost 50 and last...
  • MS Society and Support Groups Want Approval of Liberation Therapy in Canada
    TOPNEWS - December 28, 2010 | By Cindy Tweed | The MS Society and a patient advocate of multiple sclerosis have favored controversial CCSVI procedure or liberation treatment that was developed by Italian doctor Paolo Zamboni last year. CCSVI...
  • In centre of 'liberation' storm ― Heavily censored papers show Oswald well-briefed on contentious issue
    WINNIPEG FREE PRESS - December 27, 2010 | By: Kim Lawson and Tammy Karatchuk | At the height of last summer's national debate over the multiple sclerosis "liberation therapy," Manitoba Health Minister Theresa Oswald was being briefed weekly,...
  • Year End Thanks to the CCSVI community by Arlene Pellar Hubbard
    CCSVI Locator - December 24, 2010 | by Ken Torbert | Dear friends, It's been more than a year ago, December 4,2009 to be exact when the Hubbard family received the devastating news that our dear Devin had Multiple Sclerosis. Many of you know the...
  • Donovan's Christmas gift came early
    Liberation Treatment CCSVI.com - December 24, 2010 | Christmas is going to be different this year for Tim Donovan. It will be the first holiday season the longtime Fredericton Junction councillor has enjoyed since family, friends and neighbours...
  • Interview with Dr. Sclafani about CCSVI
    Interview with Dr. Sclafani about CCSVI One of the top surgeons in America, who believes in CCSVI, gives an overview of where the surgical techniques are today. This is must watch for all who are contemplating treatment.
  • Comments on Rob Breakenridge’s recent Calgary Herald column “Politics not science pushing MS treatment agenda”
    By Ashton Embry, December 23, 2010 | I decided to comment on this column because it was a curious mix of the author getting a few important points correct while at the same time getting a number of important points completely wrong. Such a mix of...
  • Drop $1M study on MS
    EDMONTON JOURNAL - December 22, 2010 | By Grace Davidson | Re: "Alberta to fund MS study; $1 million committed to test 'liberation' effectiveness, safety," The Journal, Dec. 17. Why would our government spend $1 million on a study when they can...
  • The Sad, Sad State of CCSVI Research in Alberta
    DIRECT-MS - December 22, 2010 | By Ashton Embry | Introduction It is well established that Alberta and Saskatchewan have by far the highest rates of multiple sclerosis in the world with a prevalence of at least 360/100,000 and an incidence of 24/...
  • Politics, not science, pushing MS treatment
    CALGARY HERALD - December 21, 2010 | By Rob Breakenridge, For The Calgary Herald | It is a sad commentary that despite launching a flawed study for seemingly political reasons, Alberta is still among the more cautious provinces in approaching the...
  • Steward: Premier Wall vindicated on MS trials?
    TORONTO STAR - December 21, 2010 | By Gillian Steward | Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall caused quite a furor last summer when he pledged to fund clinical trials for a controversial treatment for people suffering from multiple sclerosis. He was...
  • Cash for MS study welcomed
    RED DEER ADVOCATE - December 20, 2010 | By Laura Tester | The Alberta government’s commitment of $1 million to study “liberation treatment” is a step in the right direction but is long overdue, say Central Albertans living with multiple sclerosis...
  • MS Surgery Controversy
    WSOCTV.com - December 20, 2010 | Multiple Sclerosis Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a condition affecting the central nervous system. Many people believe it to be caused by an immune system attack on the body’s myelin (the insulating cover over the...
  • Start trials
    CALGARY HERALD - December 20, 2010 | Re: "Alberta to fund study into MS 'liberation treatment'," Dec. 17. I agree with Warren Stefenyk that this new study is an unnecessary, three-year stalling tactic. There is plenty of research already to...
  • Hoping for a multiple sclerosis miracle
    TORONTO STAR - December 18, 2010 | By Joanna Smith, Ottawa Bureau | LATHAM, N.Y.—Tonie Turner stops talking and stares at her hands. She is holding them out in front of her, palms open and towards her face, as she lifts her neck up from the pillow...
  • Research groups can submit MS 'liberation' treatment clinical trial plans
    LEADER-POST - December 17, 2010 | By ANGELA HALL | REGINA — Research groups that want to conduct clinical trials of the "liberation" procedure for multiple sclerosis can now submit their plans for consideration, as Saskatchewan takes another step...
  • CALL FOR PROPOSALS RELEASED
    SASKATCHEWAN HEALTH RESEARCH COUNCIL - December 17, 2010 | SHRF announced on December 17th, 2010, a $5 million call for proposals inviting researchers to submit plans to undertake clincial trials on the liberation treatment for multiple sclerosis....
  • MS sufferers say Alberta's funding of 'liberation treatment' study long overdue ― Patients call province 'overly cautious'
    CALGARY HERALD - December 17, 2010 | By Deborah Tetley and Karen Kleiss | Not long after Calgarian Dallas Gramlick McEwen underwent "liberation treatment" in Phoenix this week her legs turned pink. Her fingers and toes warmed up and she drew in...
  • Province funds study to examine safety of new treatment for MS patients
    CTV EDMONTON - December 16, 2010 | The province will provide up to $1 million for an observational study that will examine the safety and effects of a new treatment for people with multiple sclerosis (MS). "This observational study is about...
  • Alberta to study controversial MS therapy
    THE GLOBE AND MAIL - December 16, 2010 | By JOSH WINGROVE and CAROLINE ALPHONSO | Bowing to pressure from patients, Alberta has become the latest province to fund a study of a controversial therapy for multiple sclerosis. The government committed...
  • Your question for Ignatieff: Yes, Liberals would fund MS treatment
    GLOBE AND MAIL - December 16, 2010 | By John Ibbitson - Globe and Mail Update | A Liberal government would launch federally-funded clinical trials of a controversial new treatment for multiple sclerosis, Michael Ignatieff said Thursday in his year-...
  • MS sufferer to receive liberation treatment in India thanks to generosity of Alberta couple
    THE WESTERN STAR - December 16, 2010 | By Cory Hurley | CORNER BROOK — Bram and Ada Russell believe they have angels looking over them this holiday season. Ada was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1990. She has been confined to a wheelchair,...
  • Canadians support liberation treatment trials: survey
    CTV NEWS - December 15, 2010 | By CTV.ca News Staff | A vast majority of Canadians believe the federal government should support clinical trials of the controversial "liberation treatment" for multiple sclerosis, and say the procedure should be...
  • Chronicle Herald seeks MS treatment stories
    The Chronicle Herald.ca - Nova Scotia - December 14, 2010 | The Chronicle Herald is looking into the long-term effects of the Zamboni treatment for multiple sclerosis. If you had the procedure at least six months ago, we want to know how you’re...
  • New MS treatment needs study ― 'Liberation therapy' shouldn't be embraced without further research, says specialist
    MONTREAL GAZETTE - December 14, 2010 | By IRIS WINSTON, Postmedia News | The hype surrounding a possible breakthrough in treating multiple sclerosis is clouding the scientific issues, say two of Canada's leading neurologists. The controversial...
  • MS treatment in Costa Rica: Medical miracle or just common sense?
    THE GLOBE AND MAIL - December 11, 2010 | By Les Perreaux - SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica— From Saturday's Globe and Mail | The Canadians sit around the hotel pool,basking in the sun and sipping alcohol-free fruit drinks as they recover from their treatment....
  • Controversy continues to surround MS liberation treatment ― Medical society president expresses concern over provincial funding for out-of-country treatment
    TIMES & TRANSCRIPT - December 10, 2010 | by John Chilibeck, Times & Transcript Staff | FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick Medical Society is showing sympathy for a frustrated doctor who accused Premier David Alward of supporting a controversial...
  • Still putting faith in ‘Liberation’ ― Despite controversies, MS patients continue to seek experimental treatment
    NIAGARA THIS WEEK.COM - December 10, 2010 | By Steve Henschel, staff | Karen Cyopik wants to be liberated — liberated from the fatigue, liberated from the nausea and liberated from the once-a-week injections. Karen has lived with multiple...
  • Many thanks to auto unions
    WINDSOR STAR - December 9, 2010 | By John Charbonneau, Windsor Star | Re: Auto unions steps up to plate. I wish to convey my sincere thanks to my brothers and sisters of CAW locals 200 and 240 and all my fellow workers at Ford Motor Co. Essex...
  • MS woman hit by treatment bid setback
    HIGHLAND NEWS - December 9, 2010 | By Helen Bushnell | AN Inverness woman battling for better treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) patients has been left feeling “let down” after the brakes have been put on her campaign. Audrey Barnett launched a...
  • Science only one factor in MS trials: critics
    NATIONAL POST - December 8, 2010 | By Tom Blackwell | A federal research body that dismissed a controversial multiple-sclerosis treatment as totally unproven likely undermined its credibility by failing to seek advice from the public and supporters...
  • Timmins woman seeking Zamboni Liberation treatment
    TIMMINS TIMES - December 8, 2010 | By Len Gillis | Cindy St. Jean is a Timmins woman who has hope. She says that's about all she has left. These days she is hoping to get the controversial new medical treatment known as the Zamboni Liberation...
  • Federal MS therapy panel flawed: MDs
    CBC NEWS - December 7, 2010 | The federal panel that rejected the idea of an immediate clinical trial into an experimental vein procedure for Canadians with multiple sclerosis had several deficiencies that should be remedied in future panels,...
  • CCSVI Liberation Therapy Now Available Through MediBid Portal
    RUSHPR NEWS - December 7, 2010 | Toronto, ON (RPRN) 12/07/10 — Canadians suffering from Multiple Sclerosis looking for Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) treatment have often had difficulties getting access to the care that they...
  • Different Approaches to the Application of Science to Understanding and Treating MS – An Open Letter to Mark Freedman
    DIRECT-MS - December 7, 2010 | Dear Mark, I was recently forwarded a copy of an email which you had sent to one of your patients regarding the CCSVI issue. I was not surprised by your unwavering belief that CCSVI is nonsense but was slightly taken...
  • MS trials: Should your province fund them?
    CBC News - December 6, 2010 | By POV The Yukon government says it will team up with Saskatchewan to carry out clinical trials of a controversial vein therapy for multiple sclerosis. Saskatchewan announced earlier this year it will fund trials into...
  • New Brunswick 'liberation' fund for MS based on politics, not science: expert
    TRURO DAILY NEWS - DECEMBER 5, 2010 | FREDERICTON - A leading authority on multiple sclerosis says a New Brunswick government promise to help patients access so-called "liberation" therapy outside the country is rooted in politics rather than...
  • Riverview MS sufferer seeking liberation treatment
    TIMES & TRANSCRIPT - December 4, 2010 | By Yvon Gauvin, Times & Transcript staff | People don't always count their blessings and don't realize just how much more difficult their lives could be. One Riverview family is having its difficulties...
  • MDs ordered not to shun MS patients ― Not giving after-treatment care
    WINNIPEG FREE PRESS - December 3, 2010 | By: Larry Kusch | Health Minister Theresa Oswald says the Manitoba medical community will not shun patients who have received a controversial medical treatment abroad for multiple sclerosis. "We have been...
  • Yukon joins Sask. for MS therapy trials
    CBC News - December 3, 2010 | The Yukon government says it will team up with Saskatchewan to carry out clinical trials of a controversial vein therapy for multiple sclerosis. Saskatchewan announced earlier this year it will fund trials into so-...
  • Three women find hope ― Liberation therapy set women free from Multiple Sclerosis
    INSIDEHALTON.COM - December 2, 2010 | NORTH OAKVILLE TODAY – Three women sat in a North Oakville living room last week enjoying a cup of coffee and talking about what the future holds. “It’s nice to look forward to the future instead of being...
  • Call for Proposal for MS Clinical Trials
    SASKATCHEWAN HEALTH RESEARCH COUNCIL - December 1, 2010 ― UPDATE | On October 19, 2010, the Government of Saskatchewan made $5M available to SHRF to fund clinical trials for the MS liberation treatment. At that time SHRF outlined a three-step...
  • MS patient goes into debt for treatment
    NORTH BAY NUGGET - December 1, 2010 | By MARIA CALABRESE The Nugget | Carol Blackburn has gone into debt to undergo a controversial medical procedure not available in Canada for multiple sclerosis patients. It was worth it, she says, for the...
  • MS liberation 'a miracle' for Ottawa woman
    TORONTO SUN - December 1, 2010 | By EARL MCRAE, QMI Agency | OTTAWA - Hundreds of Canadians with multiple sclerosis have been flying to different countries for a controversial symptoms-alleviating breakthrough treatment that Canada will not offer....
  • Press Release from Fondazione Hilarescere
    by CCSVI in Multiple Sclerosis, December 1, 2010 | Dr. Zamboni has stepped down as lead investigator from the Italian MS Society's (AISM) proposed epidemiological study of CCSVI--he has stated many times that this group is not following his...
  • MS sufferers lost in system
    LANGLEY ADVANCE - November 30, 2010 | Dear Editor, Our so-called “universal” health care system, for which we pay dearly, by the way, ensures that people who smoke cigarettes, who abuse alcohol and drugs, and who are intentionally obese (and others...
  • The Back Page: Growing Patient Advocacy Will Impact Practice
    CRV Today - November 30, 2010 | Written by Barry T. Katzen, MD | Patient advocates—often suffering from incurable diseases—have become increasingly influential in pushing for the development of new therapies, and that influence has been multiplied...
  • 'Liberation' from disease
    THE TRIBUNE - November 29, 2010 | By MARYANNE FIRTH/Tribune Staff | GRIMSBY — After years of praying, Sharon Krar got her miracle. The Grimsby resident has gained a new lease on life after receiving what she calls the cure to her multiple sclerosis...
  • Unproven, out-of-country treatments get indirect subsidies
    NATIONAL POST - November 29, 2010 | By Tom Blackwell | The federal government is indirectly subsidizing a variety of sometimes unproven medical treatments in other countries, as multiple sclerosis sufferers and other patients claim thousands of...
  • Health minister wrong on MS treatment
    VICTORIA TIMES COLONIST - November 28, 2010 | BY LORIN POWELL, TIMES COLONIST | How can federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq suggest that someone suffering from the symptoms of MS wait for Canada to research the benefits of proper blood drainage...
  • Hope of liberation: portraits of MS therapy patients
    GLOBE AND MAIL - November 27, 2010 | By Caroline Alphonso and Siri Agrell | It has been a year since Paolo Zamboni offered the hope of liberation to multiple sclerosis patients everywhere. The Italian doctor suggested that some cases are vascular...
  • MS treatment studies vital soon
    WINDSOR STAR - November 27, 2010 | By James Mossman, Windsor Star | Re: MS mom grabs 'Holy Grail,' by Sonja Puzic, Nov. 22. The following statement is somewhat misleading: "Heeding the advice of an expert panel on the issue, the federal government...
  • MS sufferers continue to look for out-of-country solutions
    TIMES & TRANSCRIPT - November 27, 2010 | BY ADAM HURAS, TIMES & TRANSCRIPT STAFF | FREDERICTON - Brad Hinton has had to amass some credit card debt and his mother even decided to sell her rare art collection to get her son to Mexico in...
  • Local man makes new strides after receiving liberation therapy
    THE NEWS - NOVEMBER 26, 2010| PICTOU LANDING – Renate McKay’s eyes light up like a mother watching her child take his first steps as she watches her husband make his way across the room with a walker. It might not seem like much, but it’s a huge...
  • Rally over controversial surgery
    GLOBAL BC - November 26, 2010 | CHBC News, Kelowna | It is a controversial surgery that many people would like to see in Canada, and on Friday, some Vernon residents took their fight to a local MP. The Vernon Multiple Sclerosis Society held a...
  • Tone down the rhetoric and take action on MS
    OTTAWA CITIZEN - NOVEMBER 26, 2010 | By Katherine Miller-Gatenby | As a multiple sclerosis patient I have been living in chaos ever since Dr. Paolo Zamboni announced his liberation therapy. I am fortunate because I was diagnosed early (while in my...
  • CCSVI in Focus at ECTRIMS: New Data but Still Little Clarity
    Medscape Today - November 25, 2010 | By Susan Jeffrey | November 17, 2010 (Göteborg, Sweden) — New data on the possible link between chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) and multiple sclerosis (MS) have done little to clarify the...
  • PRINCE GEORGE WOMAN SAYS EXPERIMENTAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS TREATMENT A SUCCESS
    HQPRINCEGEORGE.COM - November 25, 2010 | Prince George, B.C. - The controversy over a new treatment for Multiple Sclerosis that hasn't been approved by health officials in Canada continues. But for a Prince George woman with MS, the so-called "...
  • New Brunswick is offside on MS
    GLOBE AND MAIL - November 25, 2010 | EDITORIAL | New Brunswick is setting aside $500,000 to pay for treatment for an unproven therapy, developed by Paolo Zamboni of Italy, for multiple-sclerosis sufferers. It should not be spending scarce health...
  • MS patient wants faster government action
    ST. CATHARINES STANDARD - November 25, 2010 | By GRANT LAFLECHE, STANDARD STAFF | When the brain freeze came, Jayne Thomas couldn't contain herself. Alone in a hotel in Florida, the St. Catharines woman grabbed anyone she could find to tell them:...
  • Feeling liberated ― MS sufferer finds relief from controversial treatment
    THE PACKET - November 25, 2010 | By Raphael Borja | With the help of her mother, Wilma Carberry slides off her wheelchair and onto the seat of an exercise bicycle. Her feet locked tightly into the pedals, Carberry pushes forward to make the bike go...
  • Father of ‘liberation’ treatment calls on Ottawa to help MS sufferers
    The Globe and Mail - November 24, 2010 | By Siri Agrell | The doctor whose name has become synonymous with a controversial treatment for multiple sclerosis is speaking out, saying it’s time for the Canadian government to step in and offer a solution...
  • N.L. Zamboni study enrolling MS patients
    CBC NEWS - November 24, 2010 | Newfoundland and Labrador researchers are enrolling multiple sclerosis patients in an observational study of a controversial treatment for the disease. The provincial government promised in September to spend $320,...
  • MS: Brenda Requier on receiving CCSVI treatment
    CBC NEWS - November 24, 2010 | By Your Voice | Bio: Edmonton-area resident Brenda Requier, in her early 50s, has multiple sclerosis. She travelled to Poland in June to undergo vein-opening procedure based on the unproven theory that MS is linked to...
  • MS trials: Should your province fund them?
    CBC POLL - November 24, 2010 | By CBC News | The New Brunswick government will set up a fund to help people pay for a controversial multiple sclerosis treatment despite the death of an Ontario man who travelled outside of Canada for the procedure....
  • Your Interview: Experimental MS treatments and the ethical issues
    CBC NEWS - November 24, 2010 | By Your Voice | There has been much debate in Canada recently about a controversial, angioplasty-like procedure for multiple sclerosis patients. The treatment is based on the unproven theory that blocked veins in...
  • N.B. will fund MS vein-opening treatment
    CBC NEWS - November 24, 2010 | The New Brunswick government will set up a fund to help people to pay for a controversial multiple sclerosis treatment despite the death of an Ontario man who travelled outside of Canada for the procedure. Mahir...
  • Fellow MS sufferer’s death no deterrent, Ontario woman says
    The Globe and Mail - November 23, 2010 | BY Bertrand Marotte | Cathy Nestmann-Dawson is undeterred. The recent death of fellow Ontario resident Mahir Mostic from complications after receiving a controversial multiple sclerosis treatment at a Costa...
  • Despite complications local MS patients still back ‘liberation’
    HAMILTON SPECATOR.COM - November 23, 2010 | By Paul Morse | Five months ago, Hamilton General Hospital nurse Debra Beckon flew to India to undergo an unproven procedure called “liberation treatment” she hoped would help alleviate her symptoms of...
  • MS patients need help now
    MONTREAL GAZETTE - November 23, 2010 | by Kathy McGovern Beaconsfield | Re: "MS patients should not go abroad" Gazette, Nov. 20. After the death of Mahir Mostic, federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq suggests that people suffering from multiple...
  • MS patient’s death puts focus on treatment risks: ‘We’re totally dismayed,’ Waterloo official says
    THE RECORD.COM - November 23, 2010 | By Johanna Weidner, Record Staff | WATERLOO REGION — Local multiple sclerosis patients and advocates are upset by reports of a St. Catharines man who died of complications from a controversial vein-opening...
  • Hype around MS ‘cure’ proves deadly
    thespec.com - Novewmber 22, 2010 | Kate Allen | Liberation therapy has been hailed as a multiple sclerosis miracle cure. But the recent death of Ontario resident Mahir Mostic, who died from complications after undergoing the procedure in Costa...
  • Percutaneous Endovascular Procedure Proven Safe and Tolerable in Patients With MS: Presented at ECTRIMS
    Doctor's Guide - November 22, 2010 | By David S. MacDougall | GOTHENBURG, Sweden -- October 17, 2010 -- A minimally invasive endovascular treatment for chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) has proven safe and well tolerated in a small...
  • MS mom grabs 'Holy Grail' ― Signs up for controversial treatment
    The Windsor Star - November 22, 2010 | By Sonja Puzic | Lisa Maheu-Gauthier dreams of strolling along the streets of Paris with her teenage daughter and gazing at the Eiffel Tower from a sidewalk cafe. It's a trip of a lifetime she hopes to make...
  • Health minister says MS patients shouldn't go abroad for controversial treatment
    EDMONTON JOURNAL - November 22, 2010 | By Meagan Fitzpatrick, Postmedia News | OTTAWA — Multiple sclerosis patients who are considering travelling abroad for the controversial liberation therapy treatment, linked this week to the death of a...
  • Local woman considers operation for MS a success
    Lake of the Woods Enterprise - November 21, 2010 | By Jon Thompson | Joanne Clifford's Multiple Sclerosis (MS) has been stopped in its tracks by a procedure dubbed the "miracle cure." Still doubted by provincial and federal politicians and banned...
  • Calgary MS patients divided on overseas death ― 'Third World' treatments prompt one man to look at Polish alternative
    CBC News - November 19, 2010 | A Calgary multiple sclerosis sufferer who recently received a controversial MS treatment in Costa Rica says he'd do it all over again. Jordan York isn't fazed by the case of the Ontario man who died on Oct. 19,...
  • Discussion Of Benefits Vs. Risks Of Surgical Intervention For Patients With Multiple Sclerosis Presented At The 37th Annual VEITHsymposium
    MEDICAL NEWS TODAY - November 19, 2010 | Paolo Zamboni, MD, professor of surgery at the University of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy), was among the 430 presenters at the 37th annual VEITHsymposium™ held at the Hilton New York (New York, NY). In his...
  • MS is a bedevilling disease with no simple answers
    THE GLOBE AND MAIL - November 19, 2010 | By ANDRÉ PICARD | The death of a Canadian multiple sclerosis sufferer after he underwent a controversial procedure to unblock veins in his neck was, if not inevitable, at least predictable. Mahir Mostic,...
  • MS patient finds help far away
    Liberation Treatment CCSVI.com - November 19, 2010 | Justin Wilbert, 36, of Somers had never been on a commercial airliner before he flew to New Delhi, India, in August — on borrowed money — for a radical surgical treatment for multiple sclerosis...
  • Controversial MS treatment helps Fort resident
    Fort Saskatchewan The Record - November 19, 2010 | By Rick Volman/Record Staff | Barbara Pilgrim talks with saucer wide eyes. Her head of flaming red hair bobbing and weaving with barely constrained excitement as she details her month-long...
  • HOPE ― Suffering from Multiple Sclerosis, North Oakville’s Colleen Caicco took a chance on an experimental treatment and she and husband Frank found hope
    INSIDEHALTON.COM - November 18, 2010 | by Ian Holroyd – North Oakville Today | NORTH OAKVILLE TODAY – Frank and Colleen Caicco had nothing left to lose. Colleen’s Multiple Sclerosis was rapidly progressing. After living with the disease for 14...
  • Dr. Hubbard connects MS to CCSVI theory
    SEATTLE KOMONEWS.COM - November 18, 2010 | Dr. Hubbard, Neurologist and Founder of The Hubbard Foundation in San Diego, California. The Hubbard Foundation has an IRB-approved study to test CCSVI and treat CCSVI. Video interview...
  • Ont. man dies after MS vein opening
    CBC NEWS - November 18, 2010 | An Ontario man with multiple sclerosis died of complications after a controversial treatment in Costa Rica to open up his neck veins, CBC News has learned. Mahir Mostic, 35, of St. Catharines died on Oct. 19, one day...
  • CCSVI in Focus at ECTRIMS: New Data but Still Little Clarity
    MEDSCAPE MEDICAL NEWS - November 17, 2010 | By Susan Jeffrey | Göteborg, Sweden — New data on the possible link between chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) and multiple sclerosis (MS) have done little to clarify the relationship...
  • MS sufferers 'sick and tired'
    Toronto Sun - November 17, 2010 | By FRANK LANDRY, QMI AGENCY | EDMONTON - Misty Schuster says a controversial multiple sclerosis treatment "changed her life completely." Prior to undergoing treatment recently in the U.S., she was using a cane to...
  • Relief from MS symptoms? Priceless ― Like many Canadian families dealing with multiple sclerosis, we had to take matters into our own hands for the hope of a better life
    OTTAWA CITIZEN - November 16, 2010 | BY KEN WARREN, Citizen sports writer | There's hope for the 75,000 Canadians suffering from multiple sclerosis. Outside of Canada, that is. I know it because I've experienced it. Or, rather, my wife, Tracy, has...
  • Start liberation treatment study
    THE OWEN SOUND SUN TIMES - NOVEMBER 16, 2010 | Editor: There has been a lot of media coverage lately about this "new" treatment for MS CCSVI -- Liberation Treatment -- angioplasty procedure of the veins in your neck). MS patients are going to...
  • Alta. to help MS patients with 'liberation' complications
    The Canadian Press - November 16, 2010 | EDMONTON — Alberta's health minister says patients who need treatment following controversial out-of-country surgery for multiple sclerosis will get help. "This is one of the problems you have when you have...
  • Albertans with MS rally for liberation treatment ― Bonnyville man pleased with controversial surgery despite return of symptoms
    EDMONTON JOURNAL - November 16, 2010 | By Jodie Sinnema, Edmontonjournal.com | EDMONTON — Even though clots have developed around the stent in Gordon Layh’s left jugular vein, and they could dislodge at any moment to travel to his heart and cause a...
  • City clinic offers controversial £6k 'miracle' MS therapy
    NEWS.SCOTSMAN.COM - November 16, 2010 | By RORY REYNOLDS | A CITY health clinic has been inundated with inquiries after becoming the first in the UK to offer a controversial new treatment for the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis. The Essential...
  • Liberal bill calls on government to track MS liberation patients
    Nova Scotia Liberal Caucus - November 16, 2010 | (Halifax, NS) Liberal health critic Diana Whalen introduced legislation today in the House of Assembly that would initiate an MS Liberation clinical trial in Nova Scotia and closely monitor those...
  • Finnish MS sufferers travel to Poland for experimental treatment
    HELSINGIN SANOMAT - INTERNATIONAL EDITION - November 15, 2010 | A number of Finnish patients suffering from Multiple Sclerosis have been travelling to Poland for an experimental new treatment. The treatment is for chronic cerebrospinal venous...
  • MS patient attempting to stave off disability
    SOUTHSHORENOW.CA - November 15, 2010 | by Paula Levy | COUNTY - A steady decline in health has forced a Farmington woman to opt for treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) outside of Canada. Geraldine Wagner has been dealing with MS, an...
  • New procedure sees city MS sufferer make 'incredible' recovery
    NEWS.SCOTSMAN.COM - November 15, 2010 | By RORY REYNOLDS | JUST three weeks ago Kenny Meldrum struggled to walk up stairs and mixed up words as he battled to come to terms with the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis. JUST three weeks ago Kenny Meldrum...
  • MS patients lacking follow-up after experimental procedure ― Angioplasty therapy not approved in Canada
    CBC NEWS - November 15, 2010 | Some Canadians with multiple sclerosis who've received an experimental vein treatment in other countries say they're now suffering complications from the surgery but having trouble getting doctors in Canada to help....
  • Andries trying to create awareness
    THE TILLSONBURG NEWS - November 15, 2010 | By MICHAEL PEELING, Tillsonburg News | Kathy Andries has trouble lifting her legs to negotiate one step. It's a compelling reason for wanting to create awareness of a controversial treatment known to give...
  • 'Like night and day' ― Port aux Basques native undergoes treatment for MS
    GULF NEWS - November 15, 2010 | By Brodie Thomas | This month, Keith Riles is able to get up from his chair at the table, take his wife Dana in his arms, and waltz her around the kitchen floor. Last month, he needed a cane to walk.The Louisburg, N....
  • Barb's 'last hope'
    THE BARRIE EXAMINER - November 13, 2010 | By MARG. BRUINEMAN, BARRIE EXAMINER | Two fingers in the middle of the night. That's what Barb Farrell is hanging onto. "It was July 4th at one in the morning," she says in a tone just above a whisper. "I...
  • MS patients warn of complications after 'liberation'
    CTV NEWS - November 13, 2010 | By CTV.ca News Staff | Three multiple sclerosis patients who went outside the country for the "liberation treatment" are warning other patients to make sure they have follow-up care in case they return with...
  • Sarah’s surgery success inspires fellow sufferers
    KNUTSFORD GUARDIAN - November 12, 2010 | By David Morgan | A MULTIPLE sclerosis sufferer who shared the story of her life-changing operation with the Guardian has inspired six more people to have the procedure. Sarah Styles, of Mobberley Road, had...
  • Bisson takes MS fight to health minister
    THE NORTHERN TIMES - November 11, 2010 | By Tanja Ingram-Paquette | After meeting with a group of almost 50 people regarding multiple sclerosis in Kapuskasing last month, Timmins-James Bay MPP Gilles Bisson has taken the fight to the provincial...
  • Liberation changed my life: Manitoba man
    Global News Regina - November 11, 2010 | A Manitoba man who suffers from multiple sclerosis says his life has changed dramatically. He’s just returned from Mexico, where he underwent the controversial Liberation treatment, a procedure not...
  • Quebec doctor warns of 'liberation treatment' risks
    CTV NEWS - November 10, 2010 | By CTV.ca News Staff | The president of the Quebec Association of Radiologists says he agrees with a warning issued by Quebec doctors to multiple sclerosis patients urging them not to seek the "liberation" treatment...
  • Treatment deemed a success ― Multiple sclerosis sufferer says banned procedures alleviates her symptoms
    CottageCountryNow.ca - November 10, 2010 | By Mary Beth Hartill | POWASSAN – Kimberly Cooper is one of many Canadians with multiple sclerosis to leave the country for a reprieve from debilitating symptoms through a controversial treatment. Chronic...
  • New MS treatment has its defenders ― But College of Physicians remains skeptical
    MONTREAL GAZETTE - November 10, 2010 | By CHARLIE FIDELMAN, THE GAZETTE | While the Quebec College of Physicians remains skeptical of the Zamboni "liberation" treatment for multiple sclerosis because of a lack of scientific evidence, patients who...
  • Liberation, please ― Fundraiser to help pay for Renfrew man’s operation
    YourOttawaRegion.com - November 10, 2010 | By Steve Newman | The jury is out on whether Dr. Paolo Zamboni’s liberation procedure will provide a major solution for sufferers of multiple sclerosis, including Bob Hunter of Renfrew. But Hunter is...
  • Three MS patients undergo treatment, thanks to community fundraising
    THE BATTLEFORDS NEWS OPTIMIST - November 10, 2010 | Story by: Tara Scaglione | When Premier Brad Wall announced his government would fund clinical trials for a controversial multiple sclerosis treatment this summer, he was making a statement about...
  • MS walk chair resigns over treatment decision
    THE SUN TIMES - November 10, 2010 | By DENIS LANGLOIS, SUN TIMES STAFF | A top fundraiser and chairman of Owen Sound's walk for multiple sclerosis has quit in frustration and "disgust" over the national organization's refusal to back clinical...
  • Avoid 'liberation' clinics, MS patients told
    METRO CANADA - November 9, 2010 | By the Canadian Press | The professional body representing Quebec doctors is advising patients with multiple sclerosis not to seek the "liberation" treatment at clinics outside Canada because the procedure remains...
  • Multiple Sclerosis and Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency: The Collège des médecins du Québec and Its Experts Express Their Opinion on Dr. Zamboni's Hypothesis
    CANADA NEWS WIRE - November 9, 2010 | MONTREAL - During a press conference held this morning, the Collège des médecins du Québec (CMQ) and its experts outlined their thinking with respect to the hypothesis issued by Dr. Paolo Zamboni in 2009 on the...
  • MS patients hail Quebec decision on Zamboni treatment
    MONTREAL GAZETTE - November 9, 2010 | By Charlie Fidelman, Gazette Health Reporter | Sensitive to growing demands from multiple sclerosis patients travelling abroad for the Zamboni “Liberation” treatment to unblock neck veins, the Quebec College of...
  • Angioplasty makes 'amazing' difference
    THE BROCKVILLE TIMES & RECORDER - November 9, 2010 | By NICK GARDINER , STAFF WRITER | A procedure MS patient Amy Preston describes as "easier than having my teeth cleaned" has put a new bounce in her step. After 15 years of deteriorating...
  • Alberta ?naive? on new MS treatment; Italian inventor writes to Alberta Health Services
    CALGARY HERALD - NOVEMBER 8, 2010 | By Jodie Sinnema, Edmonton Journal, CNS | The Italian researcher behind the controversial liberation treatment for multiple sclerosis patients has written a letter to Alberta's provincial health board, calling...
  • MS PATIENT FIGHTS FOR HIS LIFE
    YOUTUBE - November 7, 2010 | Marcel Gignac`s fight with the Nova Scotia Health Minister has been put on hold due to health issues. Marcel is now scheduled for an emergency treatment outside the country in the very near future at great risk. The...
  • Woman with MS frustrated in Alberta's health-care system
    EDMONTON JOURNAL - NOVEMBER 6, 2010 | I have had MS for 20 years. When Dr. Zamboni came out with CCSVI (Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency) also known as the liberation treatment, I started my research. On Aug. 16, my husband and I flew to...
  • New MS treatments should be available in Canada
    DURHAMREGION.COM - NOVEMBER 5, 2010 | To the editor: I recently read about Canadians having to travel out of the country to receive multiple sclerosis treatments. This is an issue to me because in Canada we expect to have one of the best health-...
  • MS patient lobbying government to approve controversial treatment
    SMITH FALLS EMC - November 4, 2010 | BY STACEY ROY | EMC News - After 14 years of suffering with the effects of Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Smiths Falls area resident Judy Butcher is joining the fight for the right of Canadian MS patients to choose to...
  • Tory seeks to fund MS trials; MLA tables private member's bill
    The Chronicle Herald - Nova Scotia - November 4, 2010 | By JOHN McPHEE Health Reporter | MLA Alfie MacLeod tabled a bill Tuesday urging the province to spend $5 million on clinical trials of a controversial therapy for multiple sclerosis. The Cape...
  • Fighting MS: Patients demand public funding of experimental surgical technique
    THE NORTHERN TIMES - November 3, 2010 | By Tanja Ingram-Paquette | Gilles Bisson, MPP for Timmins-James Bay met with local multiple sclerosis (MS) sufferers last week to discuss ways to accelerate a recently proposed government study. Since 2009,...
  • Proceeds from pool tournament and auction will support MS sufferer
    THE WEEKLY PRESS - NOVEMBER 3, 2010 | By Angele Cano | ENFIELD: Angela MacDonald has everything her family’s needs, and she hopes to keep it that way. She and her family took their concerns to Province House on Nov. 2 with the group CCSVI in MS for...
  • Event will help fund controversial MS treatment
    NEW BRUNSWICK TELEGRAPH JOURNAL - NOVEMBER 3, 2010 | BY REID SOUTHWICK, TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL | SAINT JOHN - Danny Goobie can't leave his house to watch his young daughter perform in school plays. Emily, a nine-year-old brunette, has a flair for...
  • Grimsby resident hopes Liberation therapy will enhance quality of life
    NIAGARA THIS WEEK.COM - NOVEMBER 2, 2010 | By Scott Rosts | Janet Driessen doesn’t get out on her own much, but when she does you can’t miss her. She’s scooting around town on her wheelchair, with her dog Detour in tow. She’s always positive,...
  • Inventor of 'liberation' treatment for MS blasts skeptics in Alberta government
    GLOBAL TV REGINA - NOVEMBER 1, 2010 | By Jodie Sinnema, Edmonton Journal | EDMONTON — The Italian researcher behind the controversial 'liberation' treatment for multiple sclerosis patients has written a letter to Alberta's provincial health board,...
  • Trial treatment works wonders for MS sufferer
    THE WHITECOURT STAR - NOVEMBER 1, 2010 | By Stuart Thomson, QMI Agency | April Furlong has suffered with multiple sclerosis for about as long as she can remember. She had trouble walking, speaking, going up and down stairs and even keeping her eyes...
  • Informal fraternity links MS sufferers seeking liberation therapy
    GUELPH MERCURY.COM - OCTOBER 30, 2010 | By Vik Kirsch, Mercury staff | GUELPH — An informal fraternity is emerging among people seeking or who have already received a scientifically untested, but promising, foreign treatment for multiple sclerosis,...
  • MS patients seek treatment that promises 'liberation'
    KOMO NEWS - OCTOBER 29, 2010 | By Kathi Goertzen SEATTLE -- It's a movement among patients that is unprecedented. People with multiple sclerosis are demanding access to a treatment they believe can stop the progression of the disease, even erase...
  • Vancouver firm cashes in on MS treatment
    CBC NEWS - OCTOBER 29, 2010 | A Vancouver-based medical tourism company is cashing in on the reluctance by many provincial governments to fund a controversial therapy to treat multiple sclerosis. Passport Medical has arranged for foreign treatment...
  • A Roundup of CCSVI Info: Thoughts and Observations
    By Wheelchair Kamikaze's Blog - October 28, 2010 | But first, a little shameless self-promotion: I was recently interviewed for a radio piece on CCSVI that will be airing on National Public Radio this coming Monday, November 1, between 6 AM and 9 AM...
  • Controversial multiple sclerosis treatment alleviates symptoms for North Bay mom
    NORTH BAY NUGGET - OCTOBER 27, 2010 | By MARIA CALABRESE The Nugget | Kim Cooper rustled under the covers of her hospital bed and for the first time in about three years noticed her feet weren't cold and tingling. The North Bay mother is among a...
  • 'On top of the world' ― MS patient says ‘liberation treatment’ has worked wonders
    THE SOUTHERN GAZETTE - OCTOBER 26, 2010 | By Paul Herridge Two weeks before undergoing the ‘liberation treatment’ for Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Perry Goodyear was put on a puree diet. Since the surgery Oct. 4, the Grand Bank resident acknowledged he’...
  • MS patients deduct vein therapy
    CBC TV NEWS - OCTOBER 26, 2010 | Featured Video Canadians with multiple sclerosis who decide to receive an experimental treatment overseas can apply for a Canadian tax credit, the CBC's Kelly Crowe reports. Read more...
  • MS patients claim vein therapy on taxes
    CBC NEWS - OCTOBER 26, 2010 | The controversial move by some Canadians with multiple sclerosis to receive an experimental treatment overseas could be heading to the tax office. Some Canadians who've travelled out of the country for an unproven...
  • A painful reminder ― Jeff Donegan isn't looking for a miracle, but one wouldn't hurt
    THE CHILLIWACK TIMES - OCTOBER 25, 2010 | BY PAUL J. HENDERSON, THE TIMES | This is part two in a two-part series entitled Desperate Hope that looks at the controversial Liberation Treatment for multiple sclerosis and the experiences of two...
  • HOUSE OF COMMONS DEBATES
    40th PARLIAMENT, 3rd SESSION EDITED HANSARD . NUMBER 086 - October 25, 2010 | ADJOURNMENT PROCEEDINGS [PAGES 5312-5313] | Health ― Ms. Kirsty Duncan (Etobicoke North, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, last week, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of...
  • Calling the MS detectives
    THE HERALD SCOTLAND - OCTOBER 25, 2010 | By Brian Beacom | Scotland’s community of 10,000 multiple sclerosis sufferers will be focused intently on a hotel in Clydebank this weekend, where the potential of a controversial new treatment will be...
  • Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency and the doubtful promise of an endovascular treatment for multiple sclerosis
    Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery - 23 October 2010 | Published Online First | Introduction ― Recently, a radically different concept regarding the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS) has been proposed. Termed chronic cerebrospinal venous...
  • McFadyen urges MS co-operation with Saskatchewan
    WINNIPEG, CANADA, Marketwire, October 22, 2010 | By: Larry Kusch | Manitoba's Opposition leader says the province should co-operate with Saskatchewan to ensure that clinical trials on a controversial treatment for multiple sclerosis get off the...
  • CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR MS CLINICAL TRIALS
    By Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation - October 21, 2010 | On October 19, 2010, the Government of Saskatchewan made $5M available to SHRF to fund clinical trials for the MS liberation treatment. To download a copy of the October 19th, 2010...
  • A fine balance ― An in-depth look into CCSVI, a controversial treatment for multiple sclerosis.
    Global News: October 21, 2010 | Based on the theory of Italian neurologist Dr. Paolo Zamboni, liberation therapy claims the narrowing or blockage of veins in the neck that drain blood from the brain may cause MS symptoms. The push for clinical...
  • Manitoba and Saskatchewan on same page on MS? You decide
    WINNIPEG FREE PRESS - OCTOBER 21, 2010 | By: Larry Kusch | Health Minister Theresa Oswald suggested at a news conference last Friday that there wasn't a lot of difference between her province's approach to the so-called 'liberation treatment' for...
  • Woman says she got her 'life back'
    THE BRANTFORD EXPOSITOR - OCTOBER 21, 2010 | By HEATHER IBBOTSON | A Brantford woman who travelled to New York state early this month for treatment of vein blockages in her neck is revelling in renewed energy, restored balance and an absence of...
  • MS therapy's value is clear, except to Ottawa ― 'Liberation treatment' shown to reduce symptoms of disease
    VICTORIA TIMES COLONIST - OCTOBER 20, 2010 | By Vye Young, Special to Times Colonist | I have just returned from Poland, where I accompanied my sister as she went through the "liberation treatment" for multiple sclerosis. Did I witness miracles?...
  • $5M pledged to support trials -- Regina sisters refused to wait
    REGINA LEADER POST - OCTOBER 20,2010 | By Angela Hall | Two Regina sisters with multiple sclerosis weren't willing to wait for the outcome of expected Saskatchewan clinical trials of the "liberation" procedure, an unproven therapy that many...
  • Why I had the Zamboni procedure
    ST. JOHN'S TELEGRAM - OCTOBER 19, 2010 | By Mark Lane, Special to The Telegram | Hoping to stave off the progressive effects of MS, I placed my trust in Poland | Often I sit and dream of places I’d like to visit — France, Hawaii, Germany, Russia,...
  • PROVINCE OF SASKATCHEWAN SLATES $5 MILLION FOR MS LIBERATION CLINICAL TRIALS
    NEWS RELEASE - OCTOBER 19, 2010 | The Government of Saskatchewan today announced it is following through on its commitment and investing $5 million to fund clinical trials for the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) liberation procedure. The Saskatchewan...
  • Desperate Hope
    THE CHILLIWACK TIMES - OCTOBER 19, 2010 | By Paul J. Henderson, The Times | This is part one in a two-part series looking at the controversial Liberation Treatment for multiple sclerosis and the experiences of two Chilliwack residents. Part one...
  • MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: WILL VEIN SURGERY HELP PATIENTS?
    EXPRESS.co.uk - October 19, 2010 | By Adrian Lee | WHEN Colm McLaughlin flew to Poland for an unproven medical treatment he felt he had nothing to lose. Diagnosed four years ago with multiple sclerosis (MS) he had been told by UK doctors there was...
  • HOUSE OF COMMONS DEBATES ― OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD)
    40th PARLIAMENT, 3rd SESSION, EDITED HANSARD . NUMBER 082 ― October 19, 2010 Adjournment Proceedings ― A motion to adjourn the House under Standing Order 38 deemed to have been moved.[HANSARD PAGES: 5094-5096] Ms. Kirsty Duncan (Etobicoke North,...
  • MS Researcher Slams CCSVI
    WINNIPEG, Marketwire, October 19, 2010 | A respected MS neurologist, researcher and educator has slammed the controversial CCSVI hypothesis, also known as the “Zamboni Liberation Therapy”. Dr. Randall Schapiro, Board member of the National MS...
  • Whose interests are being protected?
    The Standard - October 18, 2010 | By Marilyn I. Kyle , St.Catharines | I received a progress report from the MS Society, along with the accompanying request for donation -- a request I receive half-a-dozen or more times a year. The report states (...
  • Globe Opinion poll
    The Globe and Mail - October 18, 2010 | Do you think the controversial multiple sclerosis treatment, 'liberation therapy', should be made available in Canada? YES - 86% (2469 votes) | NO - 14% (386 votes) Read more...
  • Former mayor to lead Alberta review service for multiple sclerosis sufferers
    WINNIPEG FREE PRESS - OCTOBER 18, 2010 | By: The Canadian Press (Red Deer Advocate) | LACOMBE, Alta. - A former Alberta mayor has been appointed to lead a provincial government committee charged with reviewing all aspects of service for people with...
  • Province to make announcement about MS 'liberation' procedure
    THE REGINA LEADER-POST - October 18, 2010 | By Leader-Post staff | REGINA — The provincial government is slated to make an announcement Tuesday about research into the so-called multiple sclerosis "liberation" procedure. Premier Brad Wall, Health...
  • Darwin rejuvenated by Liberation Treatment
    Cowichan News Leader - October 17, 2010 | By Krista Siefken - Cowichan News Leader Pictorial | Many return from international trips tired and fatigued, in need of a vacation from their vacation. Not Rob Darwin, though Back from his medical tourism...
  • Percutaneous Endovascular Procedure Proven Safe and Tolerable in Patients With MS: Presented at ECTRIMS
    DOCTORS GUIDE - OCTOBER 17, 2010 | ECTRIMS By David S. MacDougall | GOTHENBURG, Sweden -- October 17, 2010 -- A minimally invasive endovascular treatment for chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency CCSVI) has proven safe and well tolerated in a...
  • Oshawa Woman’s Small Victories After Controversial MS Therapy
    FrenchTribune.com - October 16, 2010 | Submitted by Nimisha Sachdev | Karla Begley, 41, says she is feeling better after undergoing a controversial multiple sclerosis treatment known as liberation therapy, though it is still far too early to tell...
  • Surgery gave her life back
    COAST REPORTER - OCTOBER 15, 2010 | By Christine Wood/Contributing Writer | Kate Cardinall suffered with multiple sclerosis (MS) for 20 years until a 40-minute procedure completely cured her and gave her back her life. Now she wants others to...
  • ‘Liberation therapy’ doctor now warning MS patients to wait
    The Globe and Mail - October 15, 2010 | By Adrian Morrow | The Italian doctor who gave multiple sclerosis sufferers hope their condition could be treated with a simple procedure – and prompted many of them to cross borders and shell out thousands...
  • Why no funding for MS?
    THE HANNA HERALD - October 15, 2010 | Letters to the Editor | Editor: This was an open letter to federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq, as well as Kevin Sorenson, Ed Stelmach, and Jack Hayden. I am writing this letter to ask you one question — Why...
  • Manitobans flock to MS clinic in U.S.
    CBC NEWS - October 15, 2010 | By CBC News | Ninety-five per cent of multiple sclerosis patients heading to a North Dakota screening clinic for MS vein therapy are from Manitoba, the clinic's owner says. This week, Mobile Life Screening opened its...
  • Calls in Canada for Registry of Bulgaria-Treated MS Patients
    Sofia News Agency - October 15, 2010 | Canada may consider setting up a registry, which will gather information about the condition of multiple sclerosis patients, who have received a controversial treatment in foreign countries, including Bulgaria...
  • Goodale meets with MS patients considering controversial treatment
    GLOBAL NEWS - October 14, 2010 | By Sarah Richter, Global Regina | Wascana MP Ralph Goodale met with Reginans on Wednesday who have had a controversial Multiple Sclerosis liberation treatment and those who are considering it. It is believed the...
  • Manitoba may chip in for MS therapy trials
    CBC NEWS - October 15, 2010 | The government of Manitoba is setting aside $500,000 to contribute to clinical trials of a controversial procedure touted for people with multiple sclerosis. The so-called "liberation therapy" is not an approved...
  • Councillor willing to leave country to seek treatment for daughter's MS
    THE VANCOUVER SUN - OCTOBER 14, 2010 | By Richard Watts, Times Colonist | City councillor Lynn Hunter says neither policy nor politics is going to stop her going abroad and paying for a controversial treatment for her daughter's multiple sclerosis...
  • Liberal ladies lobby for 'liberation'
    THE BARRIE EXAMINER - OCTOBER 14, 2010 | By MARG. BRUINEMAN | "Hope mongering" is what Dr. Kirsty Duncan say's she's not doing. "Abdicating responsibility" is what she says the federal government is doing. The Liberal MP and health professor held a...
  • CCSVI: interventions not justified
    NEUROSENS - OCTOBER 14, 2010 | REPORT FROM THE 26TH CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR TREATMENT AND RESEARCH IN MS (ECTRIMS), GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN, OCTOBER 13-16, 2010 - “We should not be using any interventions to treat CCSVI (chronic...
  • MS members pick surgery over waiting -- Group on Facebook denounces what it calls hypocrisy of Multiple Sclerosis Society ‘big shots'
    TheStart.Com - October 13, 2010 | By Joanna Smith, Ottawa Bureau | OTTAWA—At least two members of the MS Society of Canada have decided to head out of the country to seek an experimental new treatment for multiple sclerosis against the advice of...
  • Pressure on province to allow MS treatment
    The Chatham Daily News - October 13, 2010 | Pressure is increasing for the Ontario government to allow a procedure to treat multiple scleroris. Four Chatham-Kent residents, who have each spent thousands of dollars and traveled abroad for the...
  • Healthy Controls Needed
    MSLiberation.ca - October 12, 2010| St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, in collaboration with McMaster University, is doing research on the correlation between CCSVI and M.S. They need healthy volunteers, between the ages of 18 and 65 to have an MRI...
  • A new treatment for MS
    IRISHTIMES.COM - October 12, 2010 | A chara, – Multiple sclerosis has been known as a venous problem since 1863.This, however, had not been proven until recently when an Italian doctor Paolo Zamboni investigated the venous possibilities connected to...
  • MS Society members 'break ranks' and try treatment
    CTV NEWS - October 12, 2010 | By News Staff | With a number of multiple sclerosis patients heading to clinics overseas for the "liberation treatment," some members of the MS Society of Canada have found themselves in a quandary: follow the Society'...
  • Patients report excellent results after CCVast majority of Multiple Sclerosis SVI Liberation Treatment in India
    Webnewswire - October 11, 2010 | Submitted by safemedtrip | Safemedtrip Assistance based at New Delhi, India has so far assisted more than 160 MS patients from Canada, USA, Europe and rest of the world to avail CCSVI Screening and Liberation...
  • Reasons for caution on MS therapy
    Victoria Times Colonist - October 8, 2010 | By Heather Wright | Re: "Why the fierce attacks on MS therapy?" Sept 24. I hardly call a request for caution a "fierce attack." The attacks have been primarily because the medical profession hasn't leapt...
  • MS woman improves within hours of op
    HIGHLAND NEWS - OCTOBER 7, 2010 | By Helen Bushnell AN Inverness MS sufferer has told how her future is already looking brighter thanks to pioneering surgery overseas. Audrey Barnett (39), who has been campaigning for the treatment to be made...
  • Dunlop joins MS crusade
    THE BARRIE EXAMINER - OCTOBER 7, 2010 | By NATHAN TAYLOR, QMI AGENCY | Garfield Dunlop is urging the province to help multiple sclerosis (MS) patients who are leaving the country for the so-called "liberation treatment." The Simcoe North MPP...
  • MS patient says controversial treatment has changed her life
    The Daily Gleaner - October 1, 2010 | Feeling better | Woman says she has better balance | By ADAM BOWIE | Dianne Harriman says it's hard to explain - to make people understand what it feels like to have 15 years of frustrating multiple sclerosis...
  • Surgery for multiple sclerosis available at private clinic in UK
    guardian.co.uk, Friday 1 October 2010 | By James Meikle | 45-minute procedure similar to angioplasty is being offered at clinic in Edinburgh for £6,000. A surgical treatment for multiple sclerosis is to be offered privately in the UK, despite...
  • Tory inaction steams resident
    SIMCOE.COM - Oct. 01, 2010 | By Frank Matys, STAFF | ORILLIA - Ottawa’s refusal to fund clinical trials for the liberation treatment discriminates against people with multiple sclerosis, says a local woman suffering from the condition. Government...
  • MS patients with a different message
    THE GLOBE AND MAIL - SEPTEMBER 30, 2010 | By Margaret Wente | Mark Pickup, 57, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis back in 1984. The disease has not been kind to him. He can’t walk, and gets around in an electric wheelchair. Of all his limbs, only...
  • Close-minded Negativity by MS Doctors Does Not Equate to Scientific Skepticism
    DIRECT-MS - September 30, 2010 | By Ashton Embry | Introduction - I read with great interest the Toronto Star article entitled “MS doctors attacked for their skepticism” which was published on September 24, 2010. I especially enjoyed the comments...
  • MS liberation treatment a success for city resident
    THE SOUTHWEST BOOSTER - SEPTEMBER 29, 2010 | Nearly a month after undergoing experimental liberation treatment for Multiple Sclerosis, Swift Current's Mike McIntosh has shown marked improvements after enduring MS symptoms over three decades....
  • Albany Medical Centre to Study Alternative Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis
    ALBANY, N.Y. — September 28, 2010 | Albany Medical Center today announced plans to enroll patients in a study to test the efficacy of an alternative multiple sclerosis (MS) treatment that involves using a catheter to open veins leading from the...
  • Sault woman with MS can't wait any longer
    NORTH BAY NUGGET - SEPTEMBER 28, 2010 | By FRANK DOBROVNIK, QMI AGENCY | At age 22, Tina Diaz Gallant became the proud mother of a baby boy. Five months later, she began to experience tingling and numbness in her feet, and then her hands. Thirteen...
  • Shaun Francis: The government misses the days when the sick knew nothing
    NATIONAL POST - SEPTEMBER 27, 2010 | It was promising news that turned out to be so much political theatre. This month’s gathering of health ministers in St. John’s included an agenda item on the controversial “liberation” treatment for multiple...
  • More results before 'liberation' treatment trials, say health ministers
    WINNIPEG SUN - SEPTEMBER 27, 2010 | By JEFF CUMMINGS, QMI AGENCY | When provincial and federal health ministers gathered in Newfoundland and Labrador last week, liberation therapy was near the top of their agenda. Governments across the country are...
  • MS 'liberation' treatment works: patient Tells feds to move forward on registry, clinical trials
    WINNIPEG SUN - SEPTEMBER 27, 2010 | By PAUL TURENNE | Jill Whitford thinks Canada’s health minister is wrong. Whitford, a resident of St. Georges, underwent the controversial “MS liberation” surgery in Mexico in June, and says she feels great. She...
  • MS sufferer liberated
    RED DEER ADVOCATE - SEPTEMBER 27, 2010 | Central Alberta's Daily Newspaper | By Stacy O'Brien | A Red Deer woman has been one of the latest multiple sclerosis patients to benefit from a new treatment, known as the “Liberation Procedure,” that has...
  • MS doctors attacked for their skepticism
    Healthzone. ca - September 24, 2010 By Joanna Smith and Megan Ogilvie Ottawa Bureau and Health Reporter § OTTAWA—Mark Freedman was unprepared for the onslaught of hate. There were the angry letters and phone calls. There were patients who told him...
  • CCSVI Blood Flow Study - WIRV Approved
    FALSE CREEK HEALTHCARE CENTRE - September 24, 2010 | By Jahzel Misner | False Creek Healthcare Centre is conducting a study of blood vessel differences in people with Multiple Sclerosis compared to individuals without Multiple Sclerosis. We will be...
  • Why the fierce attacks on MS therapy?
    VICTORIA TIMES COLONIST - SEPTEMBER 24, 2010 By Jody Paterson –Paulo Zamboni must have been hanging out with the marketers too long when he coined that cursed phrase "liberation therapy" for a garden-variety angioplasty. Maybe if the Italian...
  • 'We have our life back'
    The Free Press - News - September 22, 2010 By Angela Treharne –Three Multiple Sclerosis sufferers have returned from India after undergoing “life-changing” surgery that is not permitted in Canada. Three Multiple Sclerosis sufferers have returned...
  • Fingolimod, the first oral MS treatment drug approved today by the FDA
    WIKIPEDIA (The Free Encyclopedia) Fingolimod (rINN, codenamed FTY720) is an immunosuppressive drug. It is derived from the myriocin (ISP-1) metabolite of the fungus Isaria sinclairii. It is a structural analogue of sphingosine and gets...
  • Health ministers' MS pledge a step in the right direction, says Fisher
    THE ENFIELD WEEKLY PRESS - SEPTEMBER 22, 2010 By Paul Carlucci LANTZ, NOVA SCOTIA: Paul Fisher said Canada’s health ministers are moving in the right direction after they met in Newfoundland last week and pledged a collective effort to speed up...
  • Stop our misery, MS patients plead Urge politicians to fund treatment trials
    WINNIPEG FREE PRESS - SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 By Bruce Owen – HANNA Finnbogason is fresh back from Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and couldn't feel better. She was one of six Canadians who flew south to get the so-called liberation treatment, a relatively brief...
  • Tory MP: MS liberation treatment works
    By LAURA PAYTON, Parliamentary Bureau - September 20, 2010 OTTAWA – A Tory MP says it’s clear the controversial liberation treatment works on Multiple Sclerosis, contradicting the health minister’s decision earlier this month...
  • CCSVI Rally on Parliament Hill
    Ottawa Citizen - September 20, 2010 About 200 people attended a rally on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Wednesday afternoon over the controversy surrounding what is labeled the 'liberation' treatment for MS patients, a treatment created by Italian...
  • MS patients take protest to Parliament Hill
    GLOBE AND MAIL - September 20, 2010 Hundreds expected to agitate for approval of controversial liberation therapy By Gloria Galloway Multiple sclerosis patients have become an increasingly organized and angry force as they agitate to have a...
  • MS chair calls for new treatment
    Blackburn News - September 19, 2010 | By Simon Crouch | The chair of the local chapter of the MS Society says the national organization isn’t doing enough to bring a new treatment to the country. Sheila Clements says the CCSVI procedure — which...
  • EDITORIAL: Treatment deserves trials
    EDMONTON SUN - SEPTEMBER 19, 2010 Bravo to the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada for taking the first step toward clinical trials for liberation treatment. On Thursday the society announced that it has set aside $1-million for trials of the...
  • MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: Canadians in 'cure' controversy
    EDMONTON SUN - SEPTEMBER 19, 2010 By JEFF CUMMINGS Canadian patients suffering from multiple sclerosis say they’re living proof that a controversial treatment works. But, with Health Canada refusing to fund even clinical trials for the procedure,...
  • Don't turn blind eye to research
    By Lorna Murray, Windsor Star - September 17, 2010 Recently on the news, we heard that the medical profession and the MS Society turned down the "liberation" treatment that is now available to patients with multiple sclerosis. They will not even...
  • Brothers ‘liberated’ after treatment in Mexico
    TRAIL DAILY TIMES - SEPTEMBER 17, 2010 By Jim Bailey, Associated Press A controversial surgical procedure was the last chance for a Fruitvale man to avoid spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Unfortunately, with the relatively simple day...
  • Relief on their own dime
    National Post - Friday, Sept. 17, 2010 Lorne Gunter Frankly, if I had to wager, I'd bet the liberation therapy for Multiple Sclerosis sufferers -- of whom there are more than 70,000 in Canada -- will not turn out to be a cure for their debilitating...
  • MS Society commits $1M to clinical trial of liberation treatment
    The VancouverSun - Friday, September 17, 2010 By Elise Stolte EDMONTON — The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada committed $1 million Thursday to funding a yet-unplanned clinical trial for the controversial liberation treatment. The funding has...
  • MS Society sets aside $1M for vein-surgery trial
    CBC - SEPTEMBER 16, 2010 The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada has reserved $1 million to be used for a clinical trial of a controversial treatment for the disorder if preliminary results of studies suggest such a trial is warranted. By...
  • Make decision on CCSVI based on facts
    The StarPhoenix - September 16, 2010 By Cynthia Block Following is the viewpoint of Block, a communications consultant and freelance writer in Saskatoon. Her mother has multiple sclerosis. Information on chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency...
  • MS treatment trials possible, Ottawa says
    GLOBE AND MAIL - SEPTEMBER 15, 2010 St. John’s N.L. — The Canadian Press Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq says trials could start as soon as she receives research findings The federal health minister says Ottawa has not ruled out clinical trials of a...
  • Health ministers: Stop micromanaging MS research
    GLOBE AND MAIL - September 15, 2010 It’s is a hot-button topic these days, but government needs to address the big-picture issues. By Andre Picard - Public Health Reporter Saskatchewan Health Minister Don McMorris is brimming over with good...
  • Aglukkaq's message on CCSVI treatment
    MACLEANS - SEPTEMBER 15, 2010 Was it media "misinformation" or Orwellian double speak? By Anne Kingston The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Federal Minister of Health speaks with the Honourable Jerome Kennedy, Minister of Health and Community Services...
  • Local woman gets fresh start with "liberation treatment"
    ROCKYVIEW WEEKLY - SEPTEMBER 14, 2010 By Stacie Snow | Rocky View Weekly An Airdrie woman has a new lease on life thanks to a life-changing operation in Mexico. Gayle Clayton was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis 30 years ago and has suffered...
  • Health minister alleges media have left Canadians misinformed about MS
    WINNIPEG FREE PRESS - SEPTEMBER 14, 2010 ST. JOHN'S, N.L.- Canada's health minister says the media have left Canadians misinformed about Ottawa's intentions regarding a controversial treatment for multiple sclerosis. Leona Aglukkaq says the federal...
  • MS blogger sees improvement after procedure - Placebo effect questions remain
    CBC NEWS - September 13, 2010 - A Calgary woman who travelled to Poland for a controversial procedure for people with multiple sclerosis says her experience is all the proof she needs. MS blogger Ginger MacQueen, 46, said she was steadily losing...
  • N.L. to fund research into MS vein surgery
    CBC NEWS: September 13, 2010 Provincial health ministers meeting in St. John's under pressure to fund trials Newfoundland and Labrador will fund an observational study into a controversial treatment for multiple sclerosis, the province's health...
  • Saskatchewan Health Minister defends trials for MS therapy
    GLOBE AND MAIL - SEPTEMBER 13, 2010 Province to push ahead despite concerns by health-research community the new treatment is too risky By Karen Howlett Ballooning health-care costs and questions about the sustainability of the system will top the...
  • Health ministers agree to move 'quickly, ethically' on MS treatment
    WINNIPEG FREE PRESS - September 13, 2010 | The Canadian Press - ONLINE EDITION | ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Canada's provincial health ministers pledged Monday to work together to explore ways to speed up the study of a controversial treatment for multiple...
  • Liberation therapy for MS patients still locked away
    MACLEANS - SEPTEMBER 13, 2010 A closed-door meeting, accusations of a stacked panel. The fallout from the latest MS decision. By Anne Kingston On Aug. 26, a panel of 23 “medical specialists” and three “observers” gathered in the Ottawa offices of...
  • Alberta studying new MS therapy - Health minister seeks advice of colleagues
    By Jamie Komarnicki, Calgary Herald - September 13, 2010 Heading to meetings with provincial and federal counterparts, Alberta Health Minister Gene Zwozdesky opened the door to more discussion around a controversial new multiple sclerosis treatment...
  • Dr. Zamboni’s treatment deserves study
    Globe and Mail, September 13, 2010 - With high rates of multiple sclerosis, Canada has an obligation to be aggressive in determining whether a controversial new treatment for multiple sclerosis works. Newfoundland and Labrador took a creative and...
  • MP fights battle for MS sufferers across Canada
    VANCOUVER SUN - September 10, 2010 8:59 AM By Meagan Fitzpatrick, Postmedia News OTTAWA - Not all of the estimated 75,000 Canadians with multiple sclerosis may know it, but they have a passionate advocate on Parliament Hill who vows to keep fighting...
  • Liberation work needs closer look
    THE BARRIE EXAMINER - September 10, 2010 It was disappointing to learn there won't be more national research into the MS Liberation treatment pioneered by Italian doctor Paolo Zamboni. Other than Saskatchewan, no other province has stepped forward...
  • Fund 1,000-patient MS trial, McNeil tells NDP
    HALIFAX CHRONICLE HERALD - Thu, Sep 9 - 12:53 PM By JOHN McPHEE Health Reporter Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil is calling on the Nova Scotia government to fund clinical trials into a controversial treatment for multiple sclerosis. Many people have...
  • Multiple Sclerosis treatment: Experience versus Speculation
    PRAIRIE POST - Wednesday, 08 September 2010 21:43 By: Allison Werbowetsky - Saskatchewan Mike McIntosh is back in Swift Current after travelling overseas to Poland last week to receive a controversial surgery said to diminish and even cure physical...
  • An open letter to the federal health minister about CCSVI
    CTV NEWS - September 8, 2010 | By Dr. Lorne Brandes | Dear Minister, I am going to be a little more direct in my remarks than the writer of last Friday’s Globe and Mail editorial. With respect, I believe that you, and ultimately, Canadians living...
  • Government of Canada Accepts Recommendations on MS Research
    HEALTH CANADA - News Release - September 1, 2010 | OTTAWA - The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, today accepted the recommendations on Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research recently presented to her by Canadian Institutes of Health...