New MS treatments don’t come around all that often and when they do, patients and advocacy groups usually make lots of noise. There are two significant developments in Canada, which experiences some of the highest Multiple Sclerosis rates in the world. In a country where patients have to sometimes wait months on end for routine procedures, political wrangling usually precedes any real progress and these two new MS treatments are no exception.

Ottawa approves funding for clinical trials on “liberation treatment”

After a string of promises and a lot of noise from the MS community, one of the new MS treatments patients are the most excited about has gained approval for funding of clinical trials. The Ottawa government has approved the use of a 2.4 million dollar research fund to begin trials on the treatment, (CCSVI), first pioneered in Italy by a doctor trying to save his own …