Posted on 11/22/2009 3:15:45 PM PST by Revel
Elena Ravalli was a seemingly healthy 37-year-old when she began to experience strange attacks of vertigo, numbness, temporary vision loss and crushing fatigue. They were classic signs of multiple sclerosis, a potentially debilitating neurological disease.
It was 1995 and her husband, Paolo Zamboni, a professor of medicine at the University of Ferrara in Italy, set out to help. He was determined to solve the mystery of MS an illness that strikes people in the prime of their lives but whose causes are unknown and whose effective treatments are few.
What he learned in his medical detective work, scouring dusty old books and using ultra-modern imaging techniques, could well turn what we know about MS on its head: Dr. Zamboni's research suggests that MS is not, as widely believed, an autoimmune condition, but a vascular disease.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
Fascinating. I hope this is tested and found to be successful on more people than just his wife.
If this was a good study, very impressive.
In fact, this treatment is likely to be much less expensive than the existing alternatives. Someone wanting to save money should jump all over it.
This reminded me of Richard Feynman's advice to young physicists at CERN, encouraging them to follow their own paths:
"The chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off-chance that it is in another direction... who will find it?"
"...If you give more money to theoretical physics," he added, "it doesn't do any good if it just increases the number of guys following the comet head. So it's necessary to increase the amount of variety...and the only way to do it is to implore you few guys to take a risk with your lives that you will never be heard of again, and go off in the wild blue yonder and see if you can figure it out."
from Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
“An Australian doctor Dr. Barry Marshall found that a germ was causing ulcers. “
That guy put his health on the line to prove his theory. He actually swallowed a cocktail with the H. pylori bacteria and gave himself a bad case of stomach ulcers just to prove he could cure himself. He couldn’t get any interest in a research project so he went to extreme measures to generate some interest.
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REF, remember this thread. Thanks.
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