Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Thank you. Yes, I think the problem espoused by Dr. McDonald, the comparison between drug studies to treat the stroke versus a direct correction and arterectomy, is a very good analogy to what is happening today. Double-blinded studies are critical, but there is a very nice pa

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Yes.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Thank you. I think you need to do the ultrasound imaging that Sandy has talked about, but you need to do the MR imagining as well. We have discovered that there are many different sources for CCSVI, and not just narrowed vessels. Sometimes there are bad valves, and sometimes ext

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  That's an interesting point. Unfortunately, since most places have been stopped--that's true in both Canada and the United States--the experience we have is related to reviewing data that has been sent to us from around the world: from Australia, Germany, China, and many places i

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  One thing we're trying to do at the moment, since it's tough for one site to collect a lot of data, is collaborate with sites across Canada--for example, with Saskatoon. I'm meeting with Quebec City people a week from now, and hopefully with other groups. We'll combine all of the

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  I'm sorry. I am almost done. We're at a crossroads today, where I think we need to combine the clinical and research components associated with the research that is going on. In order to overcome the current inertia and move forward in this direction, I think it is extremely imp

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Thank you. I'm sorry. If my French were a little better I would try to read this in French for you.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  I understand. Am I allowed to continue to finish reading this?

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  I do have some images to demonstrate a few of the points. I think it might be more appropriate at this point to finish the text and then go to the pictures, if that's allowed.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  In terms of making a commitment toward this concept of collecting as much data as possible, I would recommend that Canada consider creating some centres of excellence in multiple sclerosis. If you had a single centre of excellence dedicated to this, you could collect 4,000 MS cas

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Yes, it's Dr. Haacke. I am here. Can you hear me okay?

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Good morning, and thank you very much for the opportunity to speak with the committee today. I'm speaking to you today not just as an MR scientist, but also as the founding president of the International Society of Neurovascular Disease, which is in the formation process at the

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  All right, so I will leave that for him to show later. So again, the question is how many is enough? The answer depends critically on the question. If there are ten sources--

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  That's okay. I am reading it verbatim here, directly from the text.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Yes.