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New Brunswick will fund MS/CCSVI vein-opening treatment

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 7:31 am
by MSUK
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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 Mostic, 35, of St. Catharines died on Oct. 19 after complications from the MS treatment that he received in Costa Rica.

The Progressive Conservative government announced in its throne speech that it will create a $500,000 fund to help MS patients seeking treatments... Read More - http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm/fuseact ... ageid/2954

Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:02 pm
by garyak
this kind of acknowlegment from governing bodies and action is great to see up here in canada-there is hope