Just noticed this post in the epikitty site:
Re: Clinical trial evaluating new anti-epileptic drug in cat
Hello again. Well I have good news and bad news.
The good news is that our study protocol was approved by the Cornell
IACUC, meaning that we have permission to proceed.
However, the bad news is, we didn't get funding.
so the aims of the study may change a little. Most of the funding was
aimed to allow people to have a MRI and CSF tap on their cat. Since we
cannot do this now the "requirements" will have to change.
Instead the study title will be changed to "suspected epilepsy", based
on their neurological exam and length of time they have been seizuring.
What does this mean for you guys?
-basically, we'll start with the cats who are already on zonisamide
and try to come up with some statistics with those guys first.
-therefore, for those of you who have your cat on zonisamide already
and still would like to participate, please send me an email to my
yahoo account. It will be easier to track everybody since the message
boards can get kinda "messy" at time.
thanks again,
David
I think there was only one cat on zonisamide in the epikitty group, and they were in Arizona, so it would be unlikely that they'd be able to get to Cornell for examination. It's not very clear from Mr. Brewer's post exactly what the purpose of the study would be in its revised state; I assume it would still be to look at the use/value of zonisamide. Maybe there will be more information in the future. To my mind, the MRI and spinal tap requirements were a negative; I really don't want to do that to Milk...
In other developments, the wonderful little muscle shirt from Sandy and Black Kitty arrived - it is so nicely done! It fits very well, too. Gotta get a picture of it.
