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On 23 Jan 00 at 11:07, Arthur Hirsch wrote: > Just heard a TV ad on one of the Sunday morning interview shows placed by > the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). The > subject of the ad was the new medicines that are being developed for > Parkinson's. I had not heard this ad before, and it is interesting that it > should appear now. > > They referred the listeners to > > www.newmedicines.org > > which has a link to their Parkinson's web page. > > Art > Thanks Art I find their pages interesting with lots of links but I was a bit disappointed that they (so far) don't live up to their billing. I waded through their stuff to this site: Pharmaceutical Researchers from 89 Companies Are Testing 138 New Medicines to Help Patients with Brain Diseases http://www.phrma.org/charts/neuro99.html Self serving text like... • new medicines to enhance the treatment of Parkinson's disease, which affects one of every 100 people over age 60 Medicines currently in the pipeline_either in human clinical trials or awaiting approval by the Food and Drug Administration_include: 27 for brain tumors, 23 for Alzheimer's disease, 17 for stroke, 16 for pain, 15 for Parkinson's disease, 12 for multiple sclerosis, 11 for epilepsy, 10 for migraine headache, 5 for sleep disorders, and 4 each for head injury and ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease. Nice but I found this less than earth shaking so I went to Pharma's search page at: http://www.phrma.org/search/ I tried typing Parkinson in their Search box and got 92 "hits". including Walter's story at... http://www.phrma.org/archive/annual97/stories/walter.html I'll look some more later.... murray [log in to unmask]