Agency aims to fund research into angioplasty for MS
The Canadian Institute for Health Research wants scientists to submit grant proposals to study whether treating vein abnormalities in multiple sclerosis patients helps relieve their symptoms. CIHR President Dr. Alain Beaudet told the parliamentary Subcommittee on Neurological Disease in Ottawa Tuesday that his agency, which is the major federal agency responsible for funding health research in Canada, wants scientists to submit proposals for such research.
"What I'm asking is for Canadian researchers to propose a protocol for a proper randomized, blinded clinical trial on the effect of this therapeutic approach," he said.
The study would look at whether balloon angioplasty to open up blocked neck and chest veins relieves MS symptoms any better than patients given a sham treatment or no treatment.
"I urge researchers interested in better understanding the linkages between MS and CCSVI to apply to CIHR," Beaudet said, noting the deadline for grant proposals is August.
"Research into clinical treatment of MS has to be accelerated." Read More....
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