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Beaudet: @1 hr, 56 min. (link below)

“So Senator. We’ll be pleased to send you a detailed response to that question.  Just an overview. Yes, this is science. It is evolving. It is changing. We’re learning new things. I would say that by and large, what we’re seeing is less and less studies showing a strong association between CCSVI and MS, and more and more studies showing negative, OR showing equally high incidence of CCSVI in patients with other types of neurological disorders. 

The other very surprising finding…the stenosis of the veins, which was the usual cardinal criterion for CCSVI, doesn’t seem in fact if there’s any abnormality at all from the postmortem studies that have appeared since or more sophisticated imaging techniques to be the real culprit. It would seem that there could be perhaps valvular problems of neck veins, not at all a stenotic problem.

So you see things are indeed evolving. We’re learning and we can give you the papers and how things are evolving very specifically.”

Link to 2nd Reading of Bill S-204 from Oct. 4, 2012

http://hocca.wmod.llnwd.net/a4502/e2/20121004102900_8422_999.wmv