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Health committee research, so I want to bring to your attention new research. I would ask that the expert panel on MS do a comprehensive literature review on CCSVI, that it visit labs and operating theatres, that it go to the international conferences. I've been to four of them, and there has not been
March 24th, 2011Committee meeting
Kirsty DuncanLiberal
Petitions patients have evidence of CCSVI. New data from the conference in Italy last week showed 700 cases analyzed from multiple international centres with 86% of MS patients having CCSVI. Therefore, the petitioners are calling for clinical trials with diagnosis, treatment and follow-up here
March 22nd, 2011House debate
Kirsty DuncanLiberal
Petitions Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present yet another petition on chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency, or CCSVI. Last week I was honoured to be asked to speak at an international scientific conference on CCSVI. We need evidence-based medicine in Canada and new evidence from
March 9th, 2011House debate
Kirsty DuncanLiberal
Multiple Sclerosis Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is mounting regarding CCSVI. More clinical trials are about to begin in the United States, and Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and Newfoundland are taking action. More important, neurologists are quietly admitting that their patients
December 16th, 2010House debate
Kirsty DuncanLiberal
Health committee As you know, we're monitoring ongoing diagnostic clinical trials very closely to determine whether the condition referred to as CCSVI exists, and whether there's an association and an increased prevalence between CCSVI and patients with MS. We're monitoring that closely
November 25th, 2010Committee meeting
Dr. Alain Beaudet
House debate subcommittee has heard many different witnesses debate the merits of the recently developed chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency, or CCSVI, treatment brought forward by Italian researcher, Dr. Paolo Zamboni. It should be noted, however, that just a week and a half ago, at an MS
October 25th, 2010House debate
Laurie HawnConservative
Petitions , private clinics and individual doctors to test for and treat CCSVI in all Canadians who so desire testing and treatment and to plan and implement a nationwide clinical trial for the evaluation of venography and balloon angioplasty for the treatment of CCSVI in persons diagnosed with MS.
October 20th, 2010House debate
Mauril BélangerLiberal
Petitions doctors to test for and treat CCSVI in all Canadians who so desire testing and treating, and to plan and implement a nationwide clinical trial for the evaluation of venography and balloon angioplasty for the treatment of CCSVI in persons who are diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
October 18th, 2010House debate
Mauril BélangerLiberal
Petitions on the Minister of Health of the Government of Canada to convene a meeting of the ministers of health of the provinces for the purpose of discussing allowing hospitals, private clinics and individual doctors to test for and treat CCSVI in all Canadians who so desire testing and treatment
October 8th, 2010House debate
Mauril BélangerLiberal
Petitions and doctors to test for and treat CCSVI in all Canadians who desire testing and treatment. It also asks the federal and provincial Ministers of Health to plan and implement a nationwide clinical trial for the evaluation of venography and balloon venoplasty for the treatment of CCSVI
October 7th, 2010House debate
Gord BrownConservative
Petitions for and treat CCSVI for all Canadians who so desire testing and treatment, and to plan and implement a nationwide clinical trial for the evaluation of venography and balloon angioplasty for the treatment of CCSVI in persons diagnosed with MS.
October 6th, 2010House debate
Mauril BélangerLiberal
Petitions and the provinces to get together to discuss allowing hospitals, private clinics and individual doctors to test for and treat CCSVI in all Canadians who desire testing and treatment and to plan and implement a nationwide clinical trial for the evaluation of venography and balloon venoplasty
October 4th, 2010House debate
Mauril BélangerLiberal
Petitions clinics and individual doctors to test for and treat CCSVI in all Canadians who so desire testing and treatment, and to plan and implement a nationwide clinical trial for the evaluation of venography and balloon venoplasty for the treatment of CCSVI in persons diagnosed with MS.
September 30th, 2010House debate
Mauril BélangerLiberal
Petitions Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present a petition on CCSVI, particularly as, on Tuesday, 52 Conservative senators voted en masse to block MS sufferers from testifying before a Senate committee on Bill S-204. I am wondering if anyone can imagine cancer sufferers not being allowed
November 8th, 2012House debate
Kirsty DuncanLiberal
Petitions Mr. Speaker, I have two petitions here, both of which are about equal access to CCSVI treatment for Canadians living with multiple sclerosis. They are petitioners from Nova Scotia, Ontario, Newfoundland and New Brunswick. The petitioners are calling upon the federal government
September 22nd, 2010House debate
Megan LeslieNDP