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    Article warns about exaggerated claims for stem-cell therapy

    An article in Maclean's, the Canadian magazine, expresses doubts about the way stem-cell treatments for MS are getting too much hype. It's called "A New 'Cure' for MS? Not So Fast" and is in the June 17 issue. It is available Only registered and activated users can see links., Click Here To Register....

    It includes this statement:

    The dominant theory that MS is an autoimmune condition caused by the body attacking its own immune system, repeated like gospel, remains unproven.
    SPMS diagnosed 1980. Avonex 2001-2004. Copaxone 2006-2009. Glatopa (glatiramer acetate = Copaxone) 12/20 - 3/19/24.
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    Yep they're still trying to kill us!
    Love, Sally


    "The best way out is always through". Robert Frost






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      Originally posted by agate View Post
      An article in Maclean's, the Canadian magazine, expresses doubts about the way stem-cell treatments for MS are getting too much hype. It's called "A New 'Cure' for MS? Not So Fast" and is in the June 17 issue. It is available Only registered and activated users can see links., Click Here To Register....

      It includes this statement:
      I still wonder if it is truly an autoimmune disorder. If it is, why wouldn't IVIG make it worse? It's an infusion of antibodies."

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        #4
        But this study looks very promising and relatively safe:
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          #5
          My theory is that it's several different diseases with similar qualities. I don't think one drug will treat all of them.


          Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally. Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. -- Miguel Ruiz

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            #6
            Sounds logical to me. Just like there are all different cancers, some respond to one treatment, other cancers sons to a different treatment.

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              #7
              Indubitably ....love that word!
              Love, Sally


              "The best way out is always through". Robert Frost






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                #8
                I think your theory is probably as close to the truth as we are ever going to get Vicky.
                Virginia

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                  #9
                  If I remember, the magazine's author Anne Kingston, was critical of Dr. Freedman dismissing the CCSVI theory with great criticism and contempt.

                  So, I'd also keep that in mind, she has been very critical of him in the past, as he was of CCSVI which she wrote a lot about, in the context of an exciting new discovery.

                  They likely do not see eye to eye, and, remembering when I was reading a lot about CCSVI, he was critical of the media's part in creating the hype and high demand that resulted in many people going to Eastern Europe or Egypt for an unproven treatment.
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                    Thank you for the additional information about Anne Kingston. I looked into some of her columns about CCSVI and see what you mean.

                    Her statement that the theory that MS is an autoimmune disease remains unproven really took me by surprise. I thought it was well established as an autoimmune disease. In fact whoever wrote the introductory material for this MS board begins: "MS is an autoimmune disease that affects the brain and spinal cords" (see top of page 1 for this board).

                    Looks as if Anne Kingston is promoting the CCSVI agenda. What she says about stem cells may have some merit though because there is a danger that stem cell treatments are being over-promoted.
                    SPMS diagnosed 1980. Avonex 2001-2004. Copaxone 2006-2009. Glatopa (glatiramer acetate = Copaxone) 12/20 - 3/19/24.

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                      Originally posted by agate View Post
                      There is a danger that stem cell treatments are being over-promoted.
                      Amen to that!
                      "Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist."

                      Albert Einstein

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                        #12
                        And the plot thickens!

                        ANN
                        There comes a time when silence is betrayal.- MLK

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