Cerebrospinal Drainage Not Tied to Multiple Sclerosis
It's depressing that the company behind Tovaxin ran out of steam after so much promise, but it looks as though it is once again ramping up for a Phase 3 trial. It sounds promising.Lyon wrote:I absolutely do.CaptBoo wrote:so perhaps you can understand my desire to pass that information along to others that may be in a similar situation.
My wife was diagnosed at age 46 (which statistically points towards a more aggressive than normal MS course) and had just been diagnosed a couple of months before entering the Tovaxin IIb clinical trial in which the entrance MRI showed a new enhancing lesion in addition to the "at least seven) lesions she was diagnosed with (which also made it seem that her MS course was going to be aggressive).
In the five years since her diagnosis she hasn't experienced anything else "MS" and I personally feel that it HAS to be due to the Tovaxin...BUT like you I'm not in a position of being able to prove it and therefore can't honestly and morally stand on the rooftops and shout to the glory of Tovaxin.
Other than honesty and morality I guess we're not so different.
The fallacy in all this is to think of MS as absolutely an autoimmune disorder or absolutely a cerebral blood drainage defect. It could well be both. Rogue T-cells circulating in the blood might not cause as much cerebral and CNS nerve damage absent CCSVI. And without rogue T-cells abnormal cerebral drainage might be much more benign.
Instead both camps seem to be aiming for an all or nothing knock-out punch.
Yes, the community will steer developments in a certain direction. You would expect chaos and disorder, but that is not true. Wikipedia is the best example. We are witnessing here an intellectual transformation that is more sweeping than anything we have seen in the past. The technological revolution of the Internet provide extraordinary tools for searching, ordering and processing information. The public fora on the Internet create an environment where new connections and combinations are made every day as a result of data placed on the web. A truly global college emerges. The monopoly of information enjoyed by the medical sector and its various disciplines disintegrates.scorpion wrote:I can not help but wonder if this type of "internet science" is the wave of the future. As the internet reaches more people and increases the power over the way it makes people think and act, will science be replaced with internet bloggers who have it "all figured out"?
And I might add: I think we are just at the beginning of things.
take a deep breath and disengage, folks
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