New Globe and Mail article: The cure for MS includes...
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:20 am
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concerned wrote:I think angioplasty [for MS] is being denied as a life saving measure because it hasn't been demonstrated to save lives.
Where has it been shown to have lifesaving potential beyond anecdotal reports?PCakes wrote:concerned wrote:I think angioplasty [for MS] is being denied as a life saving measure because it hasn't been demonstrated to save lives.
Life saving may mean different things depending on how bad you are.concerned wrote:Where has it been shown to have lifesaving potential beyond anecdotal reports?PCakes wrote:concerned wrote:I think angioplasty [for MS] is being denied as a life saving measure because it hasn't been demonstrated to save lives.
Main Entry: anecdotal evidenceLivabirdsHubbie wrote:Life saving may mean different things depending on how bad you are.concerned wrote:Where has it been shown to have lifesaving potential beyond anecdotal reports?PCakes wrote:
Personally with my wife, just having some improvements is life saving to her... the condition she is in, she talks about Switzerland, so yes if this helps in the slightest it is truly LIFE SAVING ... also perhaps if you read about Barb Farrel(not sure if that is the last name).. I would say her family and herself would say this is LIFE SAVING
Hear hear..."Given that fact, how do the same neurologists on the panel, who continue to prescribe immune-modulating drugs of questionable efficacy and significant toxicity, justify their current refusal to recommend a trial of unblocking veins in patients with progressive forms of the disease for whom there is no effective therapy?"
If you disagree with someone, please succintly state why and let it go at that. Point, counterpoint, counter-counter point, etc. is not useful-- the reality is that after the first disagreement, you will rarely convince another of something they feel strongly about unless you have shocking new information to share. The drawn-out debates also turn people off from reading the messages in the first place. If you really have to get something off your chest, please send that person a Private Message-- there is no need to have a long argument in public.
There have been numerous videos posted online givingproof of it's benefit, do a little bit of research, watch it . Yeah there are some that show not much if any improvement, while others it is obvious, and it is hardly placebo effect. You are hardly concerned about any MS sufferer if you are so quick to pan the theory.concerned wrote:Where has it been shown to have lifesaving potential beyond anecdotal reports?PCakes wrote:concerned wrote:I think angioplasty [for MS] is being denied as a life saving measure because it hasn't been demonstrated to save lives.
1eye wrote:
How about discussing the article rather than wishing for me to get sick and whatever else you implied about me.
What about videos of people showing improvements after faith healing? Should the government pay for that too?thornyrose76 wrote:There have been numerous videos posted online givingproof of it's benefit, do a little bit of research, watch it . Yeah there are some that show not much if any improvement, while others it is obvious, and it is hardly placebo effect. You are hardly concerned about any MS sufferer if you are so quick to pan the theory.concerned wrote:Where has it been shown to have lifesaving potential beyond anecdotal reports?PCakes wrote:
Is there any study showing that throwing a flotation device to a drowning person can save his life? I doubt it, because it is so obvious that probably nobody has ever cared about such a study.concerned wrote:I think angioplasty [for MS] is being denied as a life saving measure because it hasn't been demonstrated to save lives.
Clearly demonstrated? Sorry but that assertion is unscientific. I want a double blind trial!!!!concerned wrote:Floatation devices can be clearly demonstrated to save lives. With 'Liberation' would be a little more difficult to show life saving potentital, and I don't mean like "oh, billy, your a life saver!!!"