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At 06:33 2000/10/30 -0500, linda wrote, in part: >Murray, >Thanks for doing all this research . You are correct - there are >currently 11 Udall Parkinson's Research Centers funded by the NIH. Carol >Walton, of the Parkinson's Alliance verified this just yesterday . > >The Udall Act originally called for 10 centers, but fudning was made >available for one more. The history of how this funding came about, and >how advocacy by a united Parkinson's Community got us to the point we >are at today, is really ffascinating and >inspiring --someeone should write a book... hi linda aha! hot on the heels of my post about searching the archives: the history of the growth and development of the pd advocacy phenomenon is in the archives, from day one, viz: The Parkinson Alliance Jim Cordy Joan Samuelson if yer talkin bout grass roots, we is it janet aka jannie magnolia janet paterson, an akinetic rigid subtype parkie 53 now /44 dx cd / 43 onset cd /41 dx pd / 37 onset pd TEL: 613 256 8340 URL: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ EMAIL: [log in to unmask] SMAIL: POBox 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada