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This could be a breakthrough in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis.
Saturday on CTV’s current-affairs program W5, a report titled The Liberation Treatment will investigate the emergence of a possible cure for the disease, for which Canadians have one of the highest rates in the world.
W5’s award-winning medical correspondent Avis Favaro travels to meet Dr. Paolo Zamboni in Italy. Zamboni discovered a decade ago that blockages of jugular veins in the neck are present in MS patients, and an operation to open them could be the cure.
Zamboni’s wife Elena was diagnosed with MS and she was one of the first patients to undergo the procedure. She has not been afflicted since.
W5 finds that MS societies in Canada and the United States have issued cautious statements about Zamboni’s treatment, pointing to insufficient evidence. But Zamboni has treated hundreds in Italy and he believes the evidence is substantial.
bill.harris@sunmedia.ca