Citing concerns about the FDA warning, Dr. McGuckin has
notified the Hubbard Foundation that VAC is dropping out, and will no longer be
enrolling patients. We understand
that many of you who were treated through VAC may have concerns regarding
follow up data collection and treatment. We do not have any answers regarding
this as of yet, but this is a concern of ours as well. As we know more, we will
keep you updated.
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Another Champion that cares and wants to help their patients is forced out by the establishnent. What a shame. I thank God he was able to help so many achieve a better quality of life and he will surely leave with a legacy of being one of the finest IR's who had the courage to put his practice on the line for the good of the patients.
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I JUST GOT TREATED MAY 17/12 AND I THINK THIS IS IMPORTANT...BY HIM NOT DOING THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE IN MY VIEW
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ReplyDeleteTerrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. After 911 many North Americans sucumbed to it. The only way to fight terrorism is to live your life in spite of it. Dr. McG has balls enough to treat patients with CCSVI and he should stand behind it and not sucumbe to terrorism by the FDA or anyone else. This is a witch hunt, pure and simple.
ReplyDeleteI was treated by Dr. McGuckin, one of the first patients in Bellingham. I was so pleased by his professionalism and the quality of the procedure. I am saddened to hear of this development. Sad indeed.
ReplyDeleteFDA's alert had a very important note. they do not regulate the practice of medicine and they are not telling doctors not to do the procedure. They just said that if you are doing a research trial you need to get an investigational device exemption so that if you show that the device works you can put a claim to that effect on the package insert that ships with each device. This gives doctors extra confidence that there is evidence that it works. Dr McGuckin is actually a prolific inventor of medical devices used in IR. He is a bio engineer as well as an IR. He has an excellent relationship with FDA and has done many IDE approved studies. He has patents on many devices that are used widely. he is designing devices just for CCSVI. he is our champion and we can count on him not to let us down. I believe the FDA will see that the Hubbard registry is not testing devices and is helping collect critically important data. they will grant the IDE. FDA has an important role in consumer protection. They had people like Dr Barry Rubin from Toronto telling them this is a hoax and people are dying. they saw the records of the death of the Canadian woman in Costa Mesa and they responded with a fairly reasonable warning. while many people do improve there are some who do not. some have had serious set backs. 3 deaths, 1 stroke, lots of blocked stents. people need to know the risks. these are serious complications. CCSVI patients can really help by writing to the FDA. craft your own letter if you can. (it's hard to write this kind of letter) tell them what CCSVI means to you and how much you care that the research proceed unhindered. be respectful!! Then they will know there are advocates who want to see the research proceed. a group of us are drafting a sample letter that can be used as a template. we will share it soon.
ReplyDeleteI was treated this year and it saved my life. I am so grateful I had it done in time. Tomorrow, I will paddle 22 miles and it is only because I was treated for ccsvi.
ReplyDeleteIt cured me. Been in 20 races since the procedure and on the podium 20 times... My doctors all my life never helped me but put me on horrible medications that were horrible. When they did my mri to rule out ccsvi, it showed reflux damages to the max...g, I had 14 jugulars opened ...I felt good for the first time in my life.. instantly my horrible spine pain disappeared...it cured me. I can't believe that anyone would be creating havoc and stopping acess to treatment for other people...IMHO, after a lifetime of feeling horrible, I do stand on this premise...the AMA had lost sight of the hippocratic oath. ...to Be competent for ill and dying people.
Above all, early death, early loss of legs, and loss of optic nerve above providing medical treatment in a disease that has been around for a long time... is plain wrong. Ethically wrong. It is a veneous issue. Ms is vein disease...it just happens when we sleep.
It is not the boogie man. ....am so glad I never saw that fda warning or I wouldn't be alive today because i would have never had the treatment if I had been scared. I was/am so pleased to be treated. I love what Dr. Zamboni did for a lot of people including me... I would paddle across the ocean to thank him if i could. Ccsvi is important to help in a timely manner ...suffering leading to wheelchairs and blindness happen in s a timely manner. Why wait until people are disabled before they diagnosed and treat? That is cruel and inhumane.