WINNIPEG, CANADA, December 16, 2010. CCSVI Clinic Physicians (www.ccsviclinic.ca) have applied for an International ethics board study approval that will allow them to use the data on patients where their new treatment protocol is being studied. Dr. Chopra, Head of Neurosurgery and Dr. Anand Alurkar, the Interventional Radiologist at CCSVI Clinic have done thousands of Intra [...]

WINNIPEG, CANADA, October 19, 2010. 10AM ET A respected MS neurologist, researcher and educator has slammed the controversial CCSVI hypothesis, also known as the “Zamboni Liberation Therapy”. Dr. Randall Schapiro, Board member of the National MS Society in the US spoke to an MS Society sponsored conference of members and healthcare professionals on Monday in [...]

TORONTO, CANADA  – Sept. 13, 2010 09:00 ET CCSVIClinic has chosen The CliniCard Inc. as a card-based payment/data storage and transfer system for their travel, facilitation, hosting and tracking requirements. The CliniCard system represents a new generation of multi-applicational payment technology focused on the healthcare industry. CCSVI Clinic will use The CliniCard’s payment, data transfer [...]

Ottawa —Monday, Sep. 19, 2010 1:30PM EDT MS  patients are becoming increasingly organized and agitated as they mount more and larger demonstrations in order to have the new chronic cerebro-spinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) treatment, also known as “the liberation treatment,” made available to MS sufferers in Canada. CCSVI is a proposed condition in which the [...]

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 10:22 AM Gloria Galloway http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/health-minister-accepts-prudent-advice-not-to-fund-ms-treatment/article1692471/ Leona Aglukkaq has accepted the recommendation of the federal agency that funds health research, which said this week it is too soon to conduct clinical trials of a controversial new procedure to treat multiple sclerosis. “I feel the most prudent course of action at this time is [...]

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/08/31/ms-ccsvi-clinical-trial.html Last Updated: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | 5:14 PM ET CBC News| Canada should not fund a clinical trial of the so-called liberation therapy for multiple sclerosis now, an expert group has recommended. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the MS Society of Canada said Tuesday in Ottawa that a group [...]

All of the Vascular Specialists associated with the CCSVIClinic are highly experienced neuro or vascular surgeons and are trained in image guided and endovascular procedures. Our expertise with venous disorders is based on years of experience with the treatment of Superior Vena Cava (SVC) syndrome, central venous occlusions, acute and chronic deep venous thrombosis, among many [...]