Research team fails in bid to test 'liberation therapy' for MS

Posted: Published on September 28th, 2012

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Dr. Brian Postl, chair of the Manitoba Health Research Council

The Manitoba Health Research Council today pulled the plug on provincially sponsored trials to test the so-called liberation treatment for multiple sclerosis.

The research council issued a press release saying that after a thorough review, it has determined that the sole team of researchers that applied to conduct the research did not meet its criteria for a safe, ethical clinical trial.

Eighteen months ago, after considerable pressure from some MS sufferers, Premier Greg Selinger committed $5 million for conducting clinical trials on the worthiness of the liberation therapy, which unblocks veins in a patients neck.

The province handed the task of assessing research proposals to the council.

"MHRC has a duty to ensure any funded research meets criteria for safety and ethics, and the scientific review team, consisting of leading national and international researchers, determined the application we received did not meet that criteria," said the research councils chair, Dr. Brian Postl.

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Research team fails in bid to test 'liberation therapy' for MS

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