New Globe Article
Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:14 pm
Here's a link to a new article in Globe and Mail.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nat ... 801/page1/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nat ... 801/page1/
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Now you are speaking my language! I would love to see this move forward as well. You pretty much summed up my thoughts. Lets get on with it!Blaze wrote:Actually, Scorpion, I don't want to see the neurologists do the research. I want to see the appropriate specialists--ie the interventional radiologists and vascular surgeons do the research with the neuros doing the neurological follow-up.
That is the basis for Dr. MacDonald's proposed randomized double blind trial. The IRs and vascular surgeons will do the treatment and the neurologists will do the neurological follow up. Dr. MacDonald has a team of those professionals in place but continues to seek approval and funding, which he has not yet received.
We need to let him get on with it.
Doctors Dake, Sclafani, Hubbard, et al. are part of the medical community are they not?scorpion wrote:If there is anyone that people should be upset with it should be Zamboni himself who made CCSVI sound like a slam dunk but yet has been unable to convince the medical community that CCSVI even exists but of course that would put into question his hypothesis and that is a no no.
A very small fraction of the medical community.NHE wrote:Doctors Dake, Sclafani, Hubbard, et al. are part of the medical community are they not?scorpion wrote:If there is anyone that people should be upset with it should be Zamboni himself who made CCSVI sound like a slam dunk but yet has been unable to convince the medical community that CCSVI even exists but of course that would put into question his hypothesis and that is a no no.
NHE
NHE wrote:Doctors Dake, Sclafani, Hubbard, et al. are part of the medical community are they not?scorpion wrote:If there is anyone that people should be upset with it should be Zamboni himself who made CCSVI sound like a slam dunk but yet has been unable to convince the medical community that CCSVI even exists but of course that would put into question his hypothesis and that is a no no.
NHE
concerned wrote:A very small fraction of the medical community.NHE wrote:Doctors Dake, Sclafani, Hubbard, et al. are part of the medical community are they not?scorpion wrote:If there is anyone that people should be upset with it should be Zamboni himself who made CCSVI sound like a slam dunk but yet has been unable to convince the medical community that CCSVI even exists but of course that would put into question his hypothesis and that is a no no.
NHE
Um, yeah I can imagine it.Dr. Klimek admits it might have been wiser had neurologists pushed to have the procedure tested properly, rather than simply oppose it. Ottawa spends a billion dollars a year on medical research and Zamboni has undergone none of it.
“Can you imagine a pharmaceutical company saying, ‘We're not sure what this pill does, we're not really sure if it hurts you or not, we're not sure how it works, why don't you buy it off us?' ” he asks. “Would any government agency say, ‘That's okay by us'?”
I know...I had to think that one through, my Copaxone was "unknown mechanism of action," with carefully listed ways in which it would hurt me (but with a placebo-sized 28% reduction in lesions in exchange), first tested in expectation that it would cause EAE in mice rather than prevent it, ridiculously expensive...I don't think people realize just how bad pwMS have it in terms of the current standard of care? Not to say that the drugs and steroids and Tysabri don't help some, but they sure don't help much.debp wrote:This is the quote in the article I can't get over.
Um, yeah I can imagine it.Dr. Klimek admits it might have been wiser had neurologists pushed to have the procedure tested properly, rather than simply oppose it. Ottawa spends a billion dollars a year on medical research and Zamboni has undergone none of it.
“Can you imagine a pharmaceutical company saying, ‘We're not sure what this pill does, we're not really sure if it hurts you or not, we're not sure how it works, why don't you buy it off us?' ” he asks. “Would any government agency say, ‘That's okay by us'?”
They can't explain how Copaxone works exactly ... so ... yeah, you're right. I can imagine a government approving a (well I guess shot instead of pill) without really knowing how it works ...debp wrote:This is the quote in the article I can't get over.
Um, yeah I can imagine it.Dr. Klimek admits it might have been wiser had neurologists pushed to have the procedure tested properly, rather than simply oppose it. Ottawa spends a billion dollars a year on medical research and Zamboni has undergone none of it.
“Can you imagine a pharmaceutical company saying, ‘We're not sure what this pill does, we're not really sure if it hurts you or not, we're not sure how it works, why don't you buy it off us?' ” he asks. “Would any government agency say, ‘That's okay by us'?”
but yet has been unable to convince the medical community that CCSVI even exists