Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present a petition signed by a number of citizens across west central Saskatchewan. They are expressing concern about their fellow Canadians who suffer from both CCSVI, which is chronic cerebral spinal venous insufficiency, and multiple

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee   diagnosed, the analysis of this data set has enabled us to draw some conclusions regarding links between CCSVI and multiple sclerosis and also regarding the safety of the treatment. First, CCSVI has been found to highly correlate with multiple sclerosis. Only 3% of the multiple

Keeping Canada's Economy and Jobs Growing Act   cerebrospinal venous insufficiency, CCSVI, to Parliament. Almost a year later, in March 2011, the government announced a registry, although it will not actually start until July 2012. In June 2011, at last the government announced clinical trials. I want to be clear. All we have right

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Thank you. I have multiple sclerosis and so does my sister--and so do, probably, 75,000 Canadians. I'm not here to talk about multiple sclerosis; I'm here to talk about a condition called CCSVI, or chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency. I'm here to make sure this committee

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present this petition on CCSVI. Canadians with MS want to know when Conservative MPs and senators learned of their government's position to kill both the House and Senate bills for CCSVI as a decision was taken by February 6, 2012. Canadians with MS

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present two petitions on behalf of my constituents. The first is a petition asking for equal access to CCSVI treatment for Canadians living with multiple sclerosis. These constituents want to encourage the federal government to work

Health committee  Dr. Brenda Banwell's study of CCSVI possible in children is still ongoing. It's part of the suite of seven studies that the MS Society of Canada and the National MS Society are funding. The results are not yet available. We were at the 18-month mark a couple of months ago

Health committee   that responded to my request. So I'll further dig into this. Thank you. I'm going to continue if that's okay. On May 5, 2010, the MS Society called on the government to provide $10 million for research into CCSVI. Quoting from the release, it said: “The request for funding comes

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, it has been almost five years since Canadians began travelling overseas for treatment for chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency, and almost five years since they have gone without follow-up care following treatment for CCSVI. Canadians with MS are wondering

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present this petition regarding CCSVI. While the government lags 60 other countries in treatment for CCSVI, it does allow people with MS to take Genelia and Tysabri. Health Canada is now reviewing Genelia after it was linked to 11 deaths outside

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With respect to chronic cerebrospinal insufficiency (CCSVI), does the government plan to have: (a) Health Canada establish that no Canadian ought to be deprived of the imaging necessary for diagnosis, or deprived of the angioplasty indicated by a diagnosis of venous

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, this month is National Brain Awareness Month. We need a national brain strategy. Canadians with MS want to know when patient accrual began for the CCSVI trials, how many patients have been recruited, how many centres have passed ethical review boards, what

Health committee   published reports on CCSVI intervention, much of the support for endovascular interventions in CCSVI currently comes from anecdotal patient self-reports posted on web sites, blogs, and chat rooms. Prospective randomized control trials will be necessary to fully understand the impact

Health committee  That's an excellent question, Dr. Carrie. As you know, one of the numerous difficulties, to start with, has been in establishing protocols of research to even demonstrate whether or not there was a higher prevalence of an association of CCSVI with patients with MS than

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present three petitions regarding CCSVI. Canadians living with multiple sclerosis are waiting to hear when patient recruitment will start for the promised CCSVI trial, which was to begin November 1 and which the CIHR website states began on that date