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On 15 April 2016, a nondescript web site called USA Daily Records claimed that an Italian doctor discovered a surprisingly simple cure for multiple sclerosis, a progressive neurodegenerative disease: The claim didn't come from a reputable medical journal or science-based publication, but rather a new, unknown web site registered in February 2016. The article's photograph (widely reproduced on social media) implied that a team of doctors was photographed while joyfully celebrating the breakthrough, but in actuality, it was an unrelated Getty Images picture from 2014: Zamboni's hypothesis was actually new in 2009, more than six years before its reappearance in April 2016. An October 2012 New York Times Magazine article reported that the treatment seemed promising at the time: The experimental treatment didn't hold up, however. In October 2013, Zamboni's theory was described as conclusively debunked following the conclusion of a rigorous study, the results of which were published in medical journal The Lancet. News reports from the time of the study's publication described its findings as a death knell for Zamboni's theory: However, there have been updates about new treatments for sufferers of multiple sclerosis that are unrelated to Zamboni's theory, and neither simple nor inexpensive. In March 2016, The Telegraph published a piece about stem cell therapy for MS sufferers, calling the results dramatic: A paper presented at the 2016 American Academy of Neurology meeting recommended more research into whether stem cell should be recommended as regenerative therapy. However, chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency was not mentioned.
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