Hi Ardith, I hope you and your family had a great Christmas and New Year!

>> A group of researchers in Italy is proposing a
>> revolutionary new theory about Multiple Sclerosis.
>> They've offered some compelling evidence that MS
>> is primarily a vascular disease, and that the
>> neurologic damage seen in MS patients has its
>> genesis in blood flow problems within the veins
>> of those patients.  They're calling this theory
>> Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency, or
>> CCSVI for short.


> Very interesting.  Thankyou....  :-)

I thought so.. kind of knocks out all the immunological theories so it will
need extensive testing though..

>> Oh, btw, you Canadians seem to be lucky in this -
>> from what I understand this new treatment has been
>> reported in Canada and in Europe..

> Apparently it has, but this was the first I'd heard of it.

Interesting :)  I think the story got one small note in one of the network
news stations here in the USA (NBC, I think) and that's it.

Take care,
Janis

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