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FYI--Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has just announced his province is ready to fund human trials of the Liberation Procedure.

This appears to be actual treatment trials. Hopefully, other provinces may follow his lead--or better still--allow treatment.

Saskatchewan premier calls for clinical trials of controversial ms treatment.

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This is great news!

Good grief, this is actually encouraging.


This is all many of us have been saying for months and months. We know it's not proven - we're not stupid. But we also know that continuing to ignore the mounting anecdotal evidence is, to be polite, naive.

This is a complete 180 from the responses I recieved last month from Mr. Wall and the Saskatchewan Minister of Health, Don McMorris..........among others. Very encouraging. Definitely changes my follow up letter. I will not stop my campaigning perchance this announcement was lip-service to shut us up.

I believe this is the first public announcement by a provincial representative, and it should be used to try and convince other provinces to follow suit.........all of you out there campaigning, please include this in your correspondance with your provincial officials.

Congratulations Saskatchewan!!
Finally a compassionate and researched response! Finally a brave soul willing to let us stick our necks out!
Watch out for the neuroback blitz!.. send in those Riders!!

eems like Saskatchewan has always led the way in Health Care in this country

Wow, this sounds like a sea change! Wishing all Canadians the best, and hoping other provinces follow suit soon.

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That's a beautiful thing !

Just e-mailed my list of IR's and alerted them to this new development..........fingers crossed.

Very happy and surprised to read this! Go Saskatchewan!!!

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"However, the truth in science ultimately emerges, although sometimes it takes a very long time," Arthur Silverstein, Autoimmunity: A History of the Early Struggle for Recognition

At last !!!!!!!

Sent a copy via e-mail to my M.P. and asked that he now help with pressure on the British Columbia government, and also to my M.L.A. asking him to now do the right thing here.
Wished I lived in Saskatchewan (just joking, too hard to spell ).

Realy a good news!

I bet 10$ that Quebec will be the last province to start trials!!

Very good news indeed. Maybe we should start a pool on which province will follow next.

Take heart everyone.


Norm

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In a perfect world, my Neuro would like to be a vascular specialist.
'92 diag RR - '05 SP

LOL, i'll bet that the maritimes are the last

I wonder what this wonderful announcement will mean practically? There already is a clinical trial set to get underway shortly at the MS Clinic in Saskatoon.

http://www.nationalmssociety.org/resear ... index.aspx

Will they simply be contributing funds to this study? Or, are they hoping to fund a larger study on CCSVI treatment? I hope it's the latter as I care more about whether the treatment actually works rather than worrying so much about how its relationship to MS might be theoretically explained.