Multiple Sclerosis  , the required jurisdiction and the constitutional power to ensure that those funds are spent efficiently, fairly and consistent with charter values. I again ask that the minister convene her provincial and territorial counterparts and look at how we diagnose and treat CCSVI.

Multiple Sclerosis  Madam Chair, there must be diagnosis and treatment of CCSVI and then we can follow the people with the research. I also want to point out that it is simply not fair or consistent with charter values to say that angioplasty correction of diagnosed venous insufficiency

Multiple Sclerosis  Madam Chair, that is not what I said at all. We absolutely need more research. In fact, I put 50 questions on the order paper that need to be thought about by the government to protect people today and going forward. The big problem is right now there is no diagnosis for CCSVI

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

Multiple Sclerosis   in research on MS specifically. This new CCSVI is promising. I worked as a chiropractor for two decades and my patients who had this devastating disease were constantly looking for new hope and new treatments. Could the hon. member comment on how the system works? In order to receive CIHR

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  Madam Chair, for the past few weeks, the Subcommittee on Neurological Disease within the health committee has been hearing testimony from doctors and patients regarding the treatment of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency, also known as CCSVI, as a method for treating

Multiple Sclerosis   to remove blockages in cranial veins in MS patients are encouraging. There are however, several key areas for investigation. As well, the MS societies in Canada and the U.S. have called the early findings surrounding CCSVI exciting and intriguing, but have said that more research

Multiple Sclerosis   is leading on neurosciences, and how the debate on MS CCSVI treatment is so desperately needed to occur, not in the House of Commons, but in the provincial legislatures across Canada. I have had the tremendous benefit to know an incredible lady by the name of Jeanette Elliott, who runs

Multiple Sclerosis  Madam Chair, we talk about research and the needs of the patients but we are here not only to push the envelope on what needs to happen for people with MS, but, more important, for people with CCSVI. Whether they have MS or not, they should have access to diagnosis and treatment

Multiple Sclerosis  Madam Chair, Dr. Sandy McDonald, a cardiovascular surgeon in Barrie, Ontario, has seen the benefits of CCSVI treatment first-hand. He has performed six balloon angioplasties, pro bono, on MS patients this year. One of his patients was able to give up his walker. A teenage boy

Multiple Sclerosis  . In particular, we need to look at MS and its potential cause, CCSVI, as requested by the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada. As with any research concerning health care, there has been both controversy and interest regarding the CCSVI hypothesis and the liberation procedure. I do

Multiple Sclerosis   and the minister has not even mentioned it. Does the member believe that the evidence is already here that MS patients are at high risk of developing CCSVI, and that treatment as well as research can coexist? A government that simply stands here and delivers cases of platitudes, and says

Multiple Sclerosis   treatment? MS patients are at high risk of CCSVI. That disqualifies them from treatment, even from private clinics. How does that give people hope, when it is available to others who may have that? How does it give them hope if they are denied, saying it is a provincial responsibility

Multiple Sclerosis   is that I have to watch, knowing there is nothing I can do. But from the results on CCSVI treatment, I think maybe I can. Maybe if I write this letter on behalf of me and my younger brother and sister, we'll at least know that we could have contributed to a difference. I want