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Still no U.S.!! CNN, where are you?!
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Cece wrote:Still no U.S.!! CNN, where are you?!
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"Milk for Mom MAY prevent MS in baby" is mentioned on Google News and not the CCSVI news?!?!

Amazing!?!? 8O
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Oh, I started a similar thread , only mine was started a day later. I feel a bit slow..
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The Sun is pretty positive, 'It's a Miracle Op'!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... rosis.html

And KGO TV San Francisco

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?sectio ... id=7270566
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I saw the KGO site, in the article it states one person needed surgery to open up their chest to fish out a stent. This is the first I heard of this. I don't mean to be a downer, I'm still very excited about this!
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BBC NEWS Brain blood vessels clue to MS

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BBC NEWS Brain blood vessels clue to MS Wednesday, 10 February 2010
Author: Andrew K Fletcher
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Brain blood vessels clue to MS Wednesday, 10 February 2010

More than 55% of multiple sclerosis patients have been found to have constricted blood vessels in their brains, a US study says.

The preliminary results are from the first 500 patients enrolled in a trial at the University of Buffalo.

The abnormality was found in 56.4% of MS patients and also in 22.4% of healthy controls.

The MS Society said it was intriguing but not proof that this caused MS - as one leading expert claims.

Testing theory

The New York researchers were testing a theory from Italian researcher, Dr Paolo Zamboni who claims that 90% of MS is caused by narrowed veins.

“ These results are intriguing but it is important to remember that although people with MS may show evidence of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in screening studies, there's no proof as yet that this phenomenon is a cause of MS, nor that treating it would have an effect on MS ”
Dr Doug Brown, MS Society

He says the restricted vessels prevent the blood from draining fast enough and injure the brain by causing a build up of iron which leads to MS.

He has already widened the blockages in a handful of patients including his wife.

MS is a long-term inflammatory condition of the central nervous system which affects the transfer of messages from the nervous system to the rest of the body.

The Buffalo team used Doppler ultrasound to scan the patients in different body postures to view the direction of venous blood flow.

The 500 MS patients, both adults and children, also underwent MRI scans of the brain to measure iron deposits in surrounding areas of the brain.

The full results will be presented at an American neurology conference in April.

There were 161 healthy controls.

'Cautious optimism'

Robert Zivadinov who led the study at the University of Buffalo, said he was "cautiously optimistic and excited" about the preliminary data.

"They show that narrowing of the extracranial veins, at the very least, is an important association in multiple sclerosis.

"We will know more when the MRI and other data collected in this study are available."

Dr Doug Brown, Biomedical Research Manager at the MS Society, said: "These results are intriguing but it is important to remember that although people with MS may show evidence of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in screening studies, there's no proof as yet that this phenomenon is a cause of MS, nor that treating it would have an effect on MS.

"The next step is to determine what this actually means for MS and an investigation into whether there's any potential therapeutic benefit from treatment will be pivotal for this novel theory."
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Report just on 4pm interviewing Martin Jones who had been treated in Poland by Dr Simka and team really informative & positive. Have to do school run

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Hi Maureen

I just saw it too - very exciting!

Let me see can I dig out the link for the article.

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Edser did you send me a PM? I didnt get one - so I hope you're not talking to me - hope you're doing well!

Was on BBC this morning:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8509830.stm
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US Media Coverage...Begins Now :-) ABC 7 San Francisco

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It's been killing me not to tell y'all, but we did an interview with ABC. Thank you to Sherri Shelton White for contacting ABC 7 KGO-TV news. This will make it easier for everyone who is contacting the media. I think we'll be seeing more stories shortly.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?sectio ... id=7270566
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