Saskatchewan to detail MS trials
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 12:49 am
Saskatchewan's Health Minister Don McMorris says his government will announce details this week of how $5 million in provincial funding will be used to help advance clinical trials of the controversial "liberation" procedure to treat multiple sclerosis.
The Saskatchewan Party government's initial plan to fund provincial trials of the potential treatment for the disease suffered a scientific setback in June, when the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation said the single research proposal it received didn't meet the criteria set out by the foundation's expert panel.
But McMorris said the government has been working ever since to determine how the funding can still be used to further clinical trials, and is close to making an announcement.... Read More - http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm/fuseact ... ageid/2944