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As far as I understand it, donating money to the MS Society of Canada will not add one penny to CCSVI research. They may fund a tiny portion of research into CCSVI starting in July but if you have $100 to give, please put that money where it WILL fund CCSVI research. Options for doing so include: St...

For more of the above, check out the W5 program on CTV this Saturday night at 7pm.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/s ... ?hub=WFive

If one does not broach the subject of MS and just gets a requisition to have their veins checked due to some symptom or other, and then those veins are found to be blocked, for what possible reason could OHIP be denied to get the veins unblocked?

To donate directly to the initiatives in Canada that are planning their testing, here are direct links to the donation pages. For St. Joseph's (Hamilton, ON), choose MS/CCSVI Research on the pull-down tab: http://www.stjoes.ca/general_donation.asp For UBC (Vancouver, BC): https://www.supporting.ubc....

Thanks. I hope we get a few sites all across Canada gathering data on CCSVI so that we get an answer that we can all trust!

Thanks Andie,

Any indication as to whether or not anyone in Alberta will be conducting tests into CCSVI? I've heard of UBC and St. Joseph's / McMaster but nothing from Edomonton or Calgary...? And was there any talk about why the MS Society is not willing to fund this to a greater extent?

For more info on choices for donating to CCSVI resarch in Canada, check out the report on CCSVI in Canada on Charity Intelligence's website:

www.charityintelligence.ca

Could someone enlighten as to where we can find out more about the Berlin trial data? Thx

I've heard that there are "about a dozen" groups who have applied for CCSVI funding from the MS Society of Canada. Does anyone know who these 12 or so would be?