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I am posting this here because I'd like Dr. Brandes and others to tell me why I am wrong. I don't want arguments that require a medical degree to understand. Just high school, please. But I do want them to be an open-and-shut case. This may be true for points that I have not researched much, but not...

not in principle, if you are not operating. i don't know what contrast is used in the MRV, but if there is one, it has to be put in your veins. Don't know what the differences are, but they make one more 'invasive' than the other. MRV is done by scanning you with an MRI machine. Venograpy is a movin...

Usual disclaimers: not a doctor, not responsible, nothing authoritative. Just my own personal knowledge and opinion. The gold standard is the venogram, invasive and usually used in this type of surgery. The doctor watches while dye is placed in your veins, on the display of a 'live' x-ray machine. T...

youtube a new law of nature should be: The time it takes for a database to become larger than all human beings combined can read in their entire lifetimes, is equal to the time it starts filling up with pornography. Anyway you can get to some fairly kinky videos a few clicks away from this one. I us...

I'm going to recycle stuff that I wrote that seemed funny to me at the time (sometimes you have to have been there) and a lot of emails I got from someone who claims they came from steve wozniac. i don't know where they really came from, and some you no doubt have seen on the internet somewhere, but...

I also said I don't believe in coincidences. So I'm having a hard time believing in all the coincidental closing-down that has been going on. To have all that immediately follow each piece of good news heard from each north-american surgery that is doing or planning on doing la Liberation well 'look...

This is an exciting time in MS research—let’s not put the cart before the horse, but let’s do things properly so that the most people can benefit . That means properly-done research that can be validated. Then, once that happens, the floodgates will open! I don't think this is being done right. I d...

I was going to ask you: why do you not think reflux is a problem, and how do you think it is caused? I would think it is the source of instantaneous positive jugular pressure, which could overcome gravity enough to result in instantaneous back-flow strong enough to damage the BBB and cause all manne...

"I don't know, a proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven."

-Jean Cretien (former) Prime Minister of Canada, philosopher extraordinaire.[/b]

Really, guys. If you are on here to proselytize or preach I think you need to be somewhere else. If you are a neurologist, aren't there sick people around somewhere you could diagnose? You're preaching to the choir of a different religion. Or of satan-worshippers if you prefer. But I don't think you...

I think I read TNF is associated with exacerbations too. So is gamma interferon, so I think.

A test which might be possible using existing data, and data that is being collected now, both in experimental trials and not. No new info needed? If problems with limbs are one-sided, as they often are, well the brain is two-sided. People who only have one jugular, or have stenosis only on one side...

Sorry about length: relevant quotes from wikipedia articles. Stuff after ------ is mine. Right heart my emphasis [my addition] Oxygen-depleted blood from the body leaves the systemic circulation [includes head] when it enters the right heart, more specifically the right atrium through the Superior (...

"Currently, it is grossly irresponsible to offer plasty to anyone until the relationship between stenosis and MS is established." This statement is pure rubbish. He is not qualified to make this statement in the least. I wonder how a real phlebologist, or a cardiologist, would react if som...

I don't even remember who I was posting to, but since I can't find it I'll repeat it here: 250 /100,000 of US population of ~300M = 750,000. at $10,000 each that's $7.5 B. twice as much per year for injectables. Canada, at pop. of 34M, same prevalence (probably a bit higher) = 85,000 people. At $10,...