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Safety, Not Only Efficacy Still to be Proven for Controversial New MS Treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2016

Marcelo Kremenchutzky*
Affiliation:
London Health Sciences Centre London, Ontario, Canada
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 2011

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