Petitions   that many of those Canadians are denied testing or treatment for CCSVI in Canada. The petitioners are calling upon the Minister of Health to consult broadly with experts who have practical experience in treating CCSVI. They call upon the Minister of Health to proceed urgently

Petitions   venous insufficiency, otherwise known as CCSVI. They point out that when the two diseases appear to occur together simultaneously, often our medical system declines to treat the multiple sclerosis or the CCSVI with the new angioplasty type of treatment. The petitioners are calling

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee   sclerosis. The studies supported by this funding have provided significant new insights into the pathological mechanisms underlying MS. While the recently developed CCSVI treatment opens new potential therapeutic avenues for some of the patients suffering from MS, it is critical

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee   by the means of MRI, and this also confirmed that this kind of treatment is protective for multiple sclerosis patients. My conclusions are that CCSVI exists and is a serious obstruction, a major vascular problem, whether a patient has multiple sclerosis or not. CCSVI is significantly

Multiple Sclerosis   to the research in his own community. According to UBC's MRI Research Centre, in order to determine whether CCSVI is beneficial, treated patients would need to be followed over time. In addition to proving that the treatment is safe, there are important questions that need to be asked. First

Multiple Sclerosis  Mr. Chair, the member is bang on. We do have to get a move on and we do have to ensure people have access to the procedure. Again, the procedure is angioplasty. I will correct my colleague from Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound, CCSVI is the illness, is the disease and I am well aware

Multiple Sclerosis   and CCSVI must be fully researched and documented before CCSVI can be treated in people with MS. I wonder if the member is aware of whether neurologists have the requisite expertise to make that assessment and whether in fact they should be the authors of health care policy regarding

Multiple Sclerosis   insufficiency, or CCSVI. In April 2009, he published his first article on the prevalence of venous stenosis in patients with multiple sclerosis. He carried out angioplasties on 65 patients with various forms of multiple sclerosis whose veins were deformed or blocked. The procedure consists

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee   started doing them without being trained by Zamboni, and some people with MS had negative studies. We thought that not everybody with MS was going to have CCSVI. I don't know if everybody with MS has CCSVI or not, but when we restudied the patients we had initially done prior to our

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  I would answer that in a different way. I think I have an ethical dilemma as a physician not to treat people with CCSVI. I think there is good anecdotal evidence to suggest that people with CCSVI do well with treatment. Again, as a vascular surgeon I do not treat MS; I treat

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee   knowledge about CCSVI, and you've already heard from many experts about it. The only thing I can say is that in many cases like this, it is very important that there be careful research before patient populations are subject to new treatments that have not yet been proven to be effective

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee   strength of research in these areas. You have all heard, no doubt, of the very exciting new pathway for discovery and new therapy in MS, now very well known as CCSVI, which speaks to the obstruction of veins that drain the blood from the brain. It is important to underline

Supporting Vulnerable Seniors and Strengthening Canada's Economy Act   procedures for chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency, or CCSVI, have now been undertaken worldwide in over 50 countries and that some MS patients report improved quality of life, including reduced brain fog, fatigue, improved circulation and motor skills following the procedure

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I would like to, first, congratulate the member on her re-election and also thank her for all her efforts on behalf of those who suffer across Canada from MS. As the hon. member noted, I have become very familiar with the CCSVI procedure, which I see does help

Multiple Sclerosis   of passes. No one noticed a woman in a gorilla suit standing at centre court for nine seconds. The government has been made aware that over 12,500 treatment procedures for CCSVI have now been undertaken worldwide in over 50 countries and that some MS patients report improved quality