I don't understand the resistance of the group treating MS patients and not addressing it as a problem. I understand there must be science, and I understand that science is important, but the cost of doing science can't be the cost of wasted lives at this point. People who have MS with no other treatment must be considered on a compassionate basis for treatment. The data can be captured. A registry can be formulated, and all the people who will be treated will not be lost to science. We can formulate the controlled double-blind study and take as much time as we need to do it, but in the meantime we absolutely have to treat these patients on compassionate grounds; otherwise they're going to die with their disease, with a possible treatment at hand.
Evidence of meeting #4 for Subcommittee on Neurological Disease in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was patients.
A recording is available from Parliament.