Researcher's labour of love leads to MS breakthrough
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Researcher's labour of love leads to MS breakthrough
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Re: Researcher's labour of love leads to MS breakthrough
#2MS being multiple sclerosis. I went through thinking it was something to do with Microsoft.. so if you're reading here first, don't make that mistake :-)
Re: Researcher's labour of love leads to MS breakthrough
#3More radical still, the experimental surgery he performed on his wife offers hope that MS, which afflicts 2.5 million people worldwide, can be cured and even largely prevented.
Isn't that considered a breach of medical ethics, and generally just a bad idea?
Re: Researcher's labour of love leads to MS breakthrough
#4If the numbers mentioned in the article are valid, it sounds like he's found a cure for at least one cause of M.S. Whether it's the sole possible cause is another question...
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#5Assuming that the treatment is proved to be successful -- and despite promising early results, that's still a ways off -- what happens to the various "find a cure for MS" organizations? Would they go away quietly? Is there a precedent for such an event?
Re: Researcher's labour of love leads to MS breakthrough
#6Assuming that the treatment is proved to be successful -- and despite promising early results, that's still a ways off -- what happens to the various "find a cure for MS" organizations? Would they go away quietly? Is there a precedent for such an event?
The closest thing that came to mine was March of Dimes. Originally it targeted Polio, but now it's "mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_Dimes). So, maybe they move on to fight another fight.
Re: Researcher's labour of love leads to MS breakthrough
#7More radical still, the experimental surgery he performed on his wife offers hope that MS, which afflicts 2.5 million people worldwide, can be cured and even largely prevented. Isn't that considered a breach of medical ethics, and generally just a bad idea?
Maybe, but consider it from his perspective.
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#8The U.S. society goes further, discouraging patients from getting tested or seeking surgical treatment. Rather, it continues to promote drug treatments used to alleviate symptoms...
Statements like this make me wonder how much influence the drug industry had in this decision. Clearly it's not in their best interest for MS sufferers to get surgery and be done with it. I'm sure they rather MS sufferers take a Rx for the rest of their life.
Re: Researcher's labour of love leads to MS breakthrough
#9The U.S. society goes further, discouraging patients from getting tested or seeking surgical treatment. Rather, it continues to promote drug treatments used to alleviate symptoms... Statements like this make me wonder how much influence the drug industry had in this decision. Clearly it's not in their best interest for MS sufferers to get surgery and be done with it. I'm sure they rather MS sufferers take a Rx for th…
It goes further than that - if you can cure MS (and it doesn't suggest that the surgery is that difficult) what do you need the MS society for?
Just goes to show that all societies are corrupt.
Re: Researcher's labour of love leads to MS breakthrough
#10More radical still, the experimental surgery he performed on his wife offers hope that MS, which afflicts 2.5 million people worldwide, can be cured and even largely prevented. Isn't that considered a breach of medical ethics, and generally just a bad idea?
I don't think it is a bad idea if he has her informed consent.
As for it being a bad idea, who would you rather have to do surgery on you, a surgeon who cares enough about you to want to spend the rest of his life with you or some random dude who didn't fail med school?