MS trials: Should your province fund them?
- December 16, 2010 4:17 PM |
- By POV
By CBC News
The Alberta government says it will spend up to $1 million to study controversial vein-opening therapy for multiple sclerosis.The province also committed itself Thursday to fund clinical trials if advised by researchers.
"This study is a response to the remarkable interest amongst MS patients in the new MS treatment proposed by Dr. Zamboni," said Dr. Tom Feasby, dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Calgary.
The treatment is based on research by Italian physician Paolo Zamboni that suggests MS, a baffling nerve-wrecking disorder, stems from iron buildup due to constricted blood flow out of the brain.
The vein procedure is not approved in Canada, but hundreds of Canadians have travelled around the world paying $10,000 to $15,000 to have balloons inflated inside their neck and chest veins to improve blood flow.
Saskatchewan announced earlier this year it will pay for clinical trials of the procedure.
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