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Eveable - that article was heartwrenching

Does anyone know how those 1030 are doing?

I was greatly disheartened yesterday to learn that no treatment studies were funded by the NMSS and the MSSC. (Someone should check whether fast tracking the announcement to avoid a change in governance my be against the societies by-laws and whether the old board exceeded its authority.) I really h...

mmcc wrote:Which 4 drugs?

One of the articles goes on to say that the drugs treat lesion formation, but not disease progression.

Giving people a dangerous procedure for a condition that may or may not exist outside of a controlled study is probably unethical. Thanks concerned, at what point do we get the comfort that (a) this is only as dangerous as angioplasty; (b) the condition exists. From the testimony in Canadian parlia...

Looks like you'll have at least one active blogger there with you.

http://www.iusedtorun.org/

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Chung Fu / Inner Truth

Love it!

Continue working towards the goal patiently and things will work out?

These past few months have been an emotional rollercoaster - but I've learned many interesting things - and tonight's read is no exception. On the issue of medicine as a hair salon, I don't think that is the ask: but I'd like to hear people's thoughts on the balance of the medical ethical guidelines...

Here is today's neurological disease subcommittee audio

http://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Parlvu/TimeBan ... rmatID=710

concerned, the article you cite is interesting. Still, I look at the possibility of disease remission and symptom improvement optomistically; and in the context of something versus nothing, I don't see much upside in waiting - only downside. Let's hope that this treatment is shown to be more effecti...