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> Date: October 19, 2007 9:00:35 PM PDT
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> There are 4 messages totalling 233 lines in this issue.
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> Topics of the day:
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>   1. only 21 bucks!!
>   2. BOTOX QUESTION
>   3. NJ needs our help
>   4. Going Against Bush, NIH Director Urges Expanded Stem Cell
> Research
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> From: rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: October 18, 2007 9:41:29 AM PDT
> Subject: only 21 bucks!!
>
>
> whata deal!!  help New Jersey, help ourselves
> please help www.njforhope.org
> thanks, ray
> Rayilyn Brown
> Board Member AZNPF
> Arizona Chapter National Parkinson's Foundation
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> From: tess owens <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: October 18, 2007 7:37:41 AM PDT
> Subject: BOTOX QUESTION
>
>
> Hello All
>   Could anyone share their experience or has knowledge about the
> use of Botox to decrease salivation?
>   My mom  is receiving injections of Botox in her neck to decrease
> drooling, however I am concerned aout the impact
> on her breathing.  My mom has had a several episodes in which it
> sounds like her breath is shallow and labored and I want to
> know if there is any correlation with the use of Botox. My mom said
> the botox has helped with the drooling, which is good, however I am
> concerned about adverse effects.
> Also does Botox impact voice in an adverse way? My mom has had
> issues with her voice for several years, however it seemed more
> prominent
> after DBS.
>
> thank you friends, your
> experience and knowledge is greatly appreciated..
>
> with kindness
> tess owens, daughter of Arzell Owens
>
>
>           ?Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the
> quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.?
>
>                               maya angelou
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> From: rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: October 18, 2007 9:32:07 AM PDT
> Subject: NJ needs our help
>
>
> HEY FOLKS  - WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT HOW WE NEED TO HELP OTHER
> FOLKS IN
> STATES WHERE BATTLES OVER ESCR ARE BEING JOINED WHEN DON REED SENT
> ME THIS.
> AS DON SAYS "CURES HAVE NO BOUNDARIES".
> Ray
>
> New Jersey Stem Cell Research Bond Act must pass.  Go to
> www.njforhope.org
> to give $$$, PLEASE NJ NEEDS OUR HELP!!!!
>
> You might not recognize my name, but in California I helped pass a
> research
> law named after my paralyzed son, Roman Reed. The Roman Reed Spinal
> Cord
> Injury Research Act provided the first state funding for embryonis
> stem cell
> research in the nation.  I also helped pass all of California's
> other stem
> cell laws,including Proposiition 71, for which campaign I was on
> the board
> of directors.
>
> New Jersey is trying for $450 million in research, the vote for
> which comes
> up in 20 days-- and they have essentially no campaign dollars.
>
> Could you help in any way?
>
> The following is an editorial I helped write, with Russ Oster and
> the New
> Jersey for Hope campaign. These are good people, fighting to
> advance stem
> cell research. Please take a minute to help preserve half a billion
> dollars
> for stem cell research in the state of New Jersey.
> Sincerely,   Don C. Reed (and please feel free to share this email
> with
> friends of research!)
>
> NEW JERSEY'S $450 MILLION STEM CELL RESEARCH PROGRAM: YES, OR NO?
>
> 21 days from today, New Jersey voters will vote on if the state
> should spend
> forty-five million dollars a year for 10 years on stem cell
> research. The
> funding would go toward advancing medical treatments and attracting
> leading
> scientists and research companies to the state.
> The New Jersey for Hope political committee is a group of citizen
> activists,
> medical professionals, and elected officials who have come together
> for the
> purpose of advocating the passage of the public Stem Cell Ballot
> Question.
> Today we are asking help from all who believe in the promise of
> stem cell
> research. Support the campaign in New Jersey by contributing $21
> today by
> visiting our website:
> www.njforhope.org.
>
> Voting YES offers the best hope we have today for treating and curing
> diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes, heart disease and
> cancer.
> Stem cells also hold great promise in addressing spinal cord
> injuries and
> birth defects. Scientists are making tremendous progress. We want
> to do
> everything we can to support this research.
>
> Please support us today so we can keep moving forward towards
> groundbreaking
> treatments and cures. Again, New Jerseyans vote for Hope in just 21
> days.
> Please consider contributing $21 today to our campaign to fund stem
> cell
> research by visiting www.njforhope.org
>
> Think of elections that have been lost by a narrow margin-what
> would we give
> to have a chance to change that? We don't want to look back on New
> Jersey ,
> the day after the election, and say, it might have been. We almost
> got half
> a billion for research-almost? Not good enough for so many who are
> depending
> on the treatments and cures that will come from stem cell research.
>
> There are 21 days until the vote: let us use those days. We can
> make sure
> our stem cell research supporters know what is at stake, and rouse
> the State
> to turn out and vote, this coming November 6th, and stand up for
> stem cells!
>
> Also, be sure to read a profoundly moving Op-Ed authored by Carl
> Riccio, a
> longtime stem cell research advocate and a hero to New Jersey
> residents who
> favor stem cell research, that ran in last Sunday's Bergen Record.
> In it,
> Carl makes a compelling argument for Voting YES on November 6th.
> Read Carl
> Riccio's Op-Ed Here
> If New Jersey wins, everybody wins-- cures have no boundaries.
> But first, the New Jersey Stem Cell Research Bond Act must pass
>
> Don C. Reed
>
> Rayilyn Brown
> Board Member AZNPF
> Arizona Chapter National Parkinson's Foundation
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> From: rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: October 18, 2007 1:55:21 PM PDT
> Subject: Re: Going Against Bush, NIH Director Urges Expanded Stem
> Cell Research
>
>
> Yes and Bush just appointed former FRC person and contraception
> opponent
> Susan Orr acting head (doesn't have to be confirmed by Senate) of a
> federal
> Family Planning Dept.
> Ray
> Rayilyn Brown
> Board Member AZNPF
> Arizona Chapter National Parkinson's Foundation
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 6:21 PM
> Subject: Going Against Bush, NIH Director Urges Expanded Stem Cell
> Research
>
>
> Washington Post
> Going Against Bush, NIH Director Urges Expanded Stem Cell Research
> By Mary Ann Akers
> washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
> Wednesday, October 17, 2007; A15
>
> In a magazine arriving in mailboxes this week, National Institutes
> of Health
> Director Elias A. Zerhouni suggests that embryonic stem cell
> research should
> be expanded.
> "All avenues of research need to be pursued," Zerhouni says in the
> newest
> edition of Medline Plus, a journal published jointly by the NIH and
> Friends
> of the National Library of Medicine. He adds: "We must continue the
> research
> at all levels, or there will be no progress."
> Those views put Zerhouni, who serves at the pleasure of President
> Bush, at
> odds with his boss. Bush has twice vetoed legislation that would do
> exactly
> what Zerhouni is espousing: expanding research on new embryonic lines.
> The previous time Zerhouni separated himself from the president's
> position
> on stem cell research was in March during testimony before
> Congress. He said
> then that the administration's restrictions on embryonic stem cell
> research
> should be lifted. A Congressional Quarterly health-care reporter
> wrote at
> the time that Zerhouni "perhaps put himself on a path toward
> unemployment."
> The NIH director declined to be interviewed, but his spokesman, John
> Burklow, said: "As the director of the country's primary biomedical
> research
> agency, Dr. Zerhouni believes that he serves the president, and the
> American
> people, best by providing candid scientific expertise and
> perspective. He
> believes his input is appreciated."
> White House spokesman Tony Fratto said that Bush "has to draw the
> line in a
> different place than Dr. Zerhouni" -- from a "broader view" than
> that of a
> scientist. Bush's policy, he said, takes into account "moral and
> religious
> views."
> Akers writes The Sleuth, a blog on washingtonpost.com.
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