Dr Juurlink responds to UBC trial
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Dr. Bernhard Juurlink responds to UBC phase 1 results:

What puzzles me are the following:

1) I have met dozens of people who have had remarkable changes following angioplasty, for example, from being wheelchair-bound to walking normally. This cannot be placebo effect. There should be an interest in what is it about such people that allows angioplasty to have such a remarkable effect. Yet there isn't. The effort seems to be to show that venous angioplasty is quack 'science'.

George Jelinek has published on clinical trials that have shown very positive and marked effects over a five year period, including decreases in EDSS - these large trials involved lifestyle changes. Smaller trials by Dr Terry Wahls also show positive effects of lifestyle changes. Why is there no interest in this country to follow up on such research. It seems that anything that is not drug-related for treatment options are either ignored or disparaged.

Everything in this country is focussed on drugs, despite the fact that the drugs longest in use (copaxone, interferon betas) have shown no effect on longterm progression to disability - this is clearly shown in the literature but ignored. Some of the newer drugs (e.g., Tysabri) have resulted in severe disability or even death in 2/1000 patients and yet are touted as being safe. On the other hand the very few adverse side effects (mostly minor) experienced by patients undergoing venous angioplasty are very much emphasized by the neurologists.

Regards,

Bernhard H.J. Juurlink