Archive for September, 2010
Why the fierce attacks on MS therapy?
Paulo Zamboni must have been hanging out with the marketers too long when he coined that cursed phrase “liberation therapy” for a garden-variety angioplasty. Maybe if the Italian doctor hadn’t made it all sound quite so fancy and amazing, we’d just [Read More]
The right approach to multiple sclerosis
Many people suffering from MS, a chronic disease affecting the brain and spinal cord, understandably want Ottawa to fund trials across the country, but in the absence of sufficient scientific proof that the treatment merits a full-scale deployment of resources and funding, [Read More]
‘We have our life back’
Three Multiple Sclerosis sufferers have returned from India after undergoing “life-changing” surgery that is not permitted in Canada. Maryanne Ratz, Darren Robillard and Louanne Henry (nee Lightburn), all originally from Jaffray, travelled to the Medicity hospital in [Read More]
