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Updated: Tim Donovan’s New Hope For MS Tour 2011

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

Tim Donovan and New Hope for MS Tour 2011
Thursday July 28th, 2011

NEW Location:
Royal Canadian Legion, Northwest
1910 Kensington Rd NW

Meet, greet and dine – starting at 5pm till 6pm
Presentation/Meeting:6:00- 10:00 pm
Plenty of free and handicap parking.
DR. BILL CODE and TIM DONOVAN WILL BE SPEAKING!

Tim started tour on May 5th 2011 with presentations planned in over 70 cities.

More information about the event will be posted as it becomes available, but make sure you keep the 28th free:

www.newhopeforms.ca

Advertising Poster – print one off and communicate the event!

July Meeting – July 19

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

CCSVI Calgary General meeting at Phil’s Restaurant – July 19
Phil’s on 17 ave SE
3210 – 17 Ave SE

Meet, greet and eat – starting at 5pm.
Meeting: 6:00- 7:30 pm

Upcoming Events

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

Upcoming Events

    MS Walk – June 5th

    MS Bike Tour Airdrie to Olds June 11 – 12

    CCSVI Calgary General meeting at Phil’s Restaurant – June 21
    Phil’s on 17 ave SE
    3210 – 17 Ave SE

    Meet, greet and eat – starting at 5pm.
    Meeting: 6:00- 7:30 pm

    New Hope for MS Tour – July 30th

Volunteers to organize and work at CCSVI Calgary booth for the above mentioned events are required. Please respond to volunteers@ccsvicalgary.org if you can help out.

May 5th is Global CCSVI Rally Day

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Calgary MS/CCSVI Awareness Rally
Where :
McDougall Centre 455 6 Street SW
Calgary

When:
May 5, 2011
11:30am to 1:30pm

Please come and support us in our quest to have the Liberation procedure available to all who need it – right here in Canada.

For those of you reading this and live elsewhere – there are events being organised all across Canada.
Edmonton

May 10 – Next General Meeting and Elections of New Board

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Phil’s on 17 ave SE
3210 – 17 Ave SE

This Phil’s has a larger room, and it stays open a little later.
Meet, greet and eat – starting at 5pm.
Meeting: 6:00- 7:30 pm

This is a very important meeting as elections will be held for the CCSVICalgary Executive Positions.
Due to a large amount of scheduling conflicts, the elections did NOT take place at the April 19th meeting.

Plenty of free and handicap parking.

To facebook or not to facebook – that is the question

Sunday, April 17th, 2011

Sorry – couldn’t help it. Shakespeare is ALWAYS a good source for material.

To the issue – if you are interested in staying current on CCSVI issues, you probably are already using Facebook.
If you aren’t – well, simply put, you aren’t current with what’s “being said”.

Unless one is a full time Webmaster and working 10+ hours a day, you would not possibly be able to keep track of what’s going on with CCSVI in Canada, let alone worldwide. That’s before you verify that information and then publish it. Therefore this website will remain focused on what’s going with the CCSVI Calgary organisation – not necessarily with CCSVI itself.

With that in mind – CCSVI Calgary recommends that you at least consider embracing Facebook as one of your information sources for CCSVI.

Whether or not you choose to sign up and post comments is up to you, but you should at least have a look.
Let me google that for you…
Why should I?
Why shouldn’t I ?

If you decided to try Facebook out, are you unclear how to proceed?
Click here , here or here.

Here are some, but definitely not all, Facebook pages for you to have a look at to see what this is all about:

    CCSVI Calgary
    CCSVI Alberta
    CCSVI Lethbridge
    CCSVI at UBC
    CCSVI Toronto
    Direct MS

    There’s a lot to wade through – but via Facebook you’ll find kindred spirits who share your thoughts, interests, concerns etc…

    It’s not for everyone, but CCSVI Calgary wouldn’t be of service to you without sharing this information.

    Webmaster

Press Release April 2011

Saturday, April 16th, 2011

Chronic Cerebral Spinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) TESTING AND TREATMENT NOW

A delegation from CCSVI Alberta, accompanied by Dr. Bill Code of the National CCSVI Society, met with Alberta’s Health Minister, Gene Zwozdesky on April 11 and were cautiously encouraged by the Minister’s response to the presentation. Dr. Code, [see background below] explained the latest medical evidence regarding CCSVI to the minister. The Minister seemed receptive to the new information and medical opinions. CCSVI Alberta representatives will meet with the minister again on Friday, April 15 to discuss government policy and plans for CCSVI treatment and research. A CCSVI Alberta press conference was held in the rotunda at approximately 12:00 p.m. on Friday, April 15.

CCSVI Alberta is asking the Alberta government to authorize and fund CCSVI testing and treatment immediately. There is no longer an excuse to delay. “The scientific papers recently presented at the International Society of Neurovascular Diseases (ISNVD) and the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) effectively prove that venous angioplasty of the veins draining the brain and nervous system is safe and an effective treatment for Multiple Sclerosis(MS) patients afflicted with CCSVI. The linkage between CCSVI and MS has also been well proven. This is urgent. People are suffering unnecessarily. We have an opportunity to improve their quality of life and free up precious resources in the health care system” said Dr. Bill Code, Director of Medical Research of the National CCSVI Society.

“It’s time to move forward with testing and treatment” said CCSVI Alberta spokesperson Warren Stefanuk “More than 12,000 procedures have been safely performed worldwide. Any further delay would cause unnecessary suffering and death amongst Alberta’s approximately 11,000 persons with MS, most of whom are also afflicted with CCSVI. The observation study would essentially reinvent the wheel and would waste time and money. Those funds should be reallocated to a clinical trial involving testing and treatment. CCSVI Alberta would be satisfied with a clinical trial, that includes testing and treatment of CCSVI patients with varying levels of symptoms, by qualified vascular specialists specifically trained in the protocols, with a minimum of three thousand CCSVI patients, that wish to participate at centers throughout Alberta” Stefanuk said.

Background

Dr. Bill Code www.drbillcode.com
Dr. Code is an anesthesiologist with additional training and experience with brain and stroke research. He was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 1996 and was successfully treated for CCSVI in 2010. He has written several books on MS and other health related topics. He is currently serving on the board of the National CCSVI Society of Canada as Director of Medical Research.
www.nationalccsvisociety.org

Next Meeting

Monday, April 4th, 2011

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
Phil’s on 14th

1520 14 Street SW
(Private room to the right of the main entrance).

UPDATED TIME Meeting: 6:00 pm (not 7pm as published previousely)

This is a very important meeting as elections will be held for CCSVI Calgary Executive Positions.

Plenty of free and handicap parking (east side of Phil’s restaurant).

Meet n’Greet (Eat) from 5 p.m.

Dr Bill Code Forums – link added

Saturday, March 5th, 2011

Last year Dr Bill Code put on a presentation to a packed house at a special CCSVI Calgary meeting.

If you wish to continue to hear what he and others have to say about his work, we’ve added a link to the Dr. Bill Code Forums on our Links page (also accessible from the Home page).

If you visit the Forums -don’t forget to look around his main website. There’s a link in the Main menu at the forums.

Here’s a link if you just wanted to go to the main website without visiting his forums.

Webmaster