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http://www.cpn%68elp.org/pdfs/ChronicDisease.pdf

If the reports are commenting on the same study, which seems to be the case, the second report is very bad since it considers the healthy subjects as patients and it considers that all patients were less than 40 years old when the truth is that their mean age was less than 40 years.

Can anyone help me understand the significance of this form of publishing? Does it go through a peer review process? Does it have the cache of something published in a journal or would it be panned by the medical community? The article was peer-reviewed. The significance has to do with the credibil...

It looks as a continuation of http://www.fondazionehilarescere.org/pdf/VHISS-CSF.pdf
We knew that the CSF was affected by CCSVI and now, with this new study, we see that there is hypoperfusion in the brain parenchyma.

Stabilo wrote:75 people as of when???

The pdf file was created on Februry, 20.

Why we have to teleport disbelief New Scientist, 12 January 2011 Magazine issue 2795 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927951.900-why-we-have-to-teleport-disbelief.html DNA waves and water L. Montagnier1,2, J. Aissa2, E. Del Giudice3, C. Lavallee2, A. Tedeschi4, and G. Vitiello5 http://arxiv.o...

The abstract below describes another new way of classifying MS. I like it because it blasts EAE right off the top. On the other hand their condemnation of immunosuppression seems too broad to me since there are some successes on that front (campath etc.) Also, their comments about the placebo effec...

ok, here is the original englsh version... http://www.springerlink.com/content/964x66410756v0t4/fulltext.html Thanks for the link alex. Apart from promoting the authors' point of view which is certainly legitimate, the article contains the following misinformation: It has been shown, and confirmed ...

Sotiris, do you know what this means? I am so confused about which direction positive and negative is. For Siemens data, the flow away from the heart to the brain (typically arterial flow) is defined as the positive direction, which shows up as white vessels in the phase image. The whiter it is, th...

According to the following report http://www.falsecreekhealthcare.com/share/haacke-report-Jun-2010.pdf your jugulars seem to have no reflux (see page 11 where it is stated that "The right IJV has slightly positive flow at the end of the cardiac cycle, indicating minor reflux.", i.e. backwa...

HILARESCERE PRESS STATEMENT of November 20, 2010

Who is responsible for the current problems?

From http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/732683 Endovascular Treatment Results At this meeting, Dr. Zamboni and Dr. Zivadinov and colleagues presented results of a small pilot safety trial of endovascular treatment of venous lesions in patients with MS. A first small pilot study was published in Dec...

The full paper of Doepp et al. can be found below:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1 ... .22085/pdf
and the response of Prof. Zamboni can be found in http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm?fuseact ... ageid=2479 (near the middle of the page for the time being)

A pdf of the poster they presented at ECTRIMS can be found below: http://www.aubmc.org.lb/downloads/abstract.pdf or alternatively http://www.aub.edu.lb/communications/Documents/Public/Multiple_Sclerosis.pdf It seems that the presence of EVS is not only strongly linked to disease duration but also to...

cmozena wrote:...Does anyone know what their criteria for 'vascular commorbidity' was?

From the paper:

For analysis, we created a category for vascular comorbidity, including diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, hypercholesterolemia, and peripheral vascular disease.