MS trials: Should your province fund them? - facebook prikbord

The Yukon government says it will team up with Saskatchewan to carry out

clinical trials of a controversial vein therapy for multiple sclerosis.

Saskatchewan announced earlier this year it will fund trials into so-called "liberation therapy," a form of angioplasty in which neck veins are

opened up with small balloons to improve the flow of blood from the

brain to the heart.

Yukon Health Minister Glenn Hart said details of its agreement with Saskatchewan are in development, but he said Yukoners should be selected for the clinical trials.

"We've chosen to move with Saskatchewan because they have a high number of MS patients in the province," Hart told CBC News. "We're hoping that with

the greater number that we can kind of get in on the research and be

included in a greater number of results."

Vein therapy is based on an unproven theory of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) -- put forward by Italian doctor Paolo Zamboni -- that blocked

veins in the neck or spine are to blame for MS.

The therapy is not approved by Health Canada, and much of the medical community has been skeptical of the procedure.

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