Hear, hear, Greg, Ray
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From: "Greg Wasson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 6:27 AM
Subject: Re: How do you cope?


> Rick,
>
> Here's how I cope.
>
> 1 -- By supporting people like Cindy Sheehan and the dozens of other
> mothers of dead soldiers who are camped outside the road to President
> Bush's Texas White House in Crawford right now, which is apparently making
> him so uncomfortable that he commented on it three times yesterday alone.
> He will pass by the encampment today on his way to a fundraiser.
>
> 2 -- By writing and phoning Congress and the President to support HR 810
> on human embryonic stem cell research. If we can turn Frist, we can pass
> the bill and force the president to veto it or sign it. Even if he vetoes
> it, his party will pay dearly in the midterm elections.
>
> 3 -- By working in the states to enact legislation such as proposition 71
> in California to do what the NIH should be doing.
>
> 4 -- By taking heart in the fact that vital research is going on around
> the world despite the policies of the current administration in the US.
>
> 5 -- By remembering that in August 2001 the majority of Americans did not
> support stem cell research and that 75% support it today -- that shift is
> due to a deliberate and unrelenting campaign to educate the American
> public about this research conducted primarily by CAMR, the JDRF, and PAN.
>
> 6 -- By knowing that the stage three clinical trials report on Spheramine
> (retinal epithelial cells) will be out before the end of the year and may
> be a giant leap forward in Parkinson's treatments.
>
> 7 -- By reading the report of the Bristol autopsy in the UK on a clinical
> trial participant in a study of GDNF which shows for the first time that
> this growth factor actually sprouted new dopamine producing neurons in the
> human brain without any apparent side effects or problems, and actually
> regressing this man's PD. No other potential treatment has been proven to
> regress the actual disease instead of just masking its symptoms for a few
> hours.
>
> 8 -- By taking heart in the fact that when any politician discusses curing
> diseases now, Parkinson's is almost always mentioned at or near the top of
> the list.
>
> 9 -- By remembering that funding for Parkinson's research has increased
> tenfold in less than 10 years.
>
> 10 -- By not giving up.
>
> It's a long road that has no turning.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Greg Wasson
>
>
>
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