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Wall Street Journal: Hundreds of MS patients sign up for imagining programs to measure vein blockages

Release Date: March 25, 2010

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An article in the Wall Street Journal about a decision by Stanford University to shut down an experimental program that inserted metal stents into the internal jugular veins of multiple sclerosis patients in an effort to improve their symptoms reports that hundreds of patients have signed up for imaging programs to measure vein blockages at institutions that include UB.

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