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Thread #62502 Message #1010012
Posted By: Mark Cohen
29-Aug-03 - 12:05 AM
Thread Name: BS: Procarin - MS treatment?
Subject: RE: BS: Procurin - MS treatment?
2/3 of MS patients improved with it, some almost miraculous -- from that alone I'd be more than a little suspicious. The reason I say that is that those are exactly the kinds of statements that have been made about every new "miracle treatment" for every chronic debilitating disease that has resisted standard medical therapy, for centuries...none of which has withstood the test of time.
It is also HIGHLY unlikely that a drug company would turn down a treatment for MS because of "lack of profit." If any drug company comes up with a real cure, or even significantly improved treatment for MS, their officers and major shareholders will be retiring early and buying condos here in Hawaii.
I'm not saying categorically it can't work, just not to get your hopes up too high at this point. This is a terrible disease, and if this treatment can help a few people feel better that would be wonderful. Unless it ended up costing a lot more people huge amounts of money and anguish and disappointment, and making a very few unethical people very rich...that wouldn't be wonderful.