Health committee   definitive test to diagnose CCSVI. I just want to make that clarification.

Health committee  I want to ask that this group review the latest information from the ISNVD, which is the group that looks at CCSVI. There is a consensus statement on the best way to image.

Health committee   1,000 patients. We just heard a discussion about how we don't know how to do the imaging. I was at the International Society for Neurovascular Disease conference a week ago, where I gave two talks. You will see the positive and negative studies linking CCSVI in my rebuttal

Health committee  I do see it as a difficult diagnosis, and that's why I was wondering. I want to thank you for that update because it seems to me there's been some questioning around whether it exists and whether people without MS can have CCSVI, and I'm glad that you were able to—

Health committee  It has been one of the problems, actually, because some of the people who really don't believe in the association of CCSVI have put forth exactly this observation: Why is it that so many patients have the same abnormalities in their vein system and don't show the MS symptoms

Health committee  Thank you very much, Madame Chair. I want to thank the witnesses for being here again to update us on this very important study. I did want to touch base with you, Dr. Beaudet. Could you give the committee a rundown of the progress made in the last year on CCSVI? I know you

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

Health committee  , in 2009, Italian physician Paolo Zamboni proposed that the blockage of veins in the neck and chest, a condition he referred to as chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency, or CCSVI, was the cause of MS, and he suggested that opening these veins would relieve the patients' MS symptoms

National Strategy for Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) Act  (The House divided on the motion, which was negatived on the following division:) Vote #136

National Strategy for Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) Act  I declare the motion defeated.

National Strategy for Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) Act  The House resumed from February 15 consideration of the motion that Bill C-280, An Act to establish a National Strategy for Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI), be read the second time and referred to a committee.

National Strategy for Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) Act  It being 5:30 p.m., the House will now proceed to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion at second reading stage of Bill C-280 under private members' business. Call in the members. And the bells having rung:

Multiple Sclerosis  Mr. Speaker, 55,000 to 75,000 Canadians live with devastating MS. Tonight, all members will have the opportunity to vote their conscience, to do the right thing and to vote to develop a national strategy for CCSVI. Sixty countries have undertaken 30,000 procedures, while Canada

Bill C-280 An Act to establish a National Strategy for Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI)

C-280 First Session, Forty-first Parliament, 60 Elizabeth II, 2011 HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA BILL C-280 An Act to establish a National Strategy for Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) first reading, September 21, 2011 Ms. Duncan (Etobicoke North) 411365 SUMMARY

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present this petition regarding CCSVI as I am just back from delivering talks at the International Society for Neurovascular Disease conference. Why does the government continue to ignore the evidence from over 30,000 CCSVI procedures, scientific