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Research is happening in universities too. Its too bad that the larger American universities are avidly seeking research funding from corporate America, who buy the right to dictate the kind of university research they want to fund, depending on its marketability and potential for patents. Research is a business. You can read a great article in Atlantic Monthly on-line to explain how larger universities like Berkley have been establishing corporate funding in this way. http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/03/press.htm But smaller American universities and non-American university systems that remain publically subsidized (as in Canada) still have some academic freedom to conduct pure research. Perhaps Parkinson's Research conducted in smaller university research centres may offer us some hope as well for cures and better treatments. What we should question is the patenting and copyrighting laws for research findings. Joan -----Original Message----- From: Jacob M. Drollinger <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Saturday, July 28, 2001 2:18 PM Subject: Shot down again Dear friends, The pharmacueicals industry and the medical establishment has once again shot down a potentially promising treatment by labeling it "ineffective." NIL-A, the first (and probably last) neuroimmunophilin drug has, it seems, gone the same route as GDNF and fetal tissue implants. "No conclusive evidence to say it improves P.D. symptoms" is what they say. When the truth of the matter is, the people responsible for the findings, i.e. the medical and drug community, have too much at stake. Think about it for a minute: why would an industry, supported by over a million people (the numbers as you know are growing daily), all of a sudden offer them a cure, thereby cutting off their means of income, which is pretty substancial. Stem cells will be next, I am sure. If there is no possible way to prove them ineffective, I am sure that research and possible treatment will be outlawed. Call me a pessimist, but do you like apples? I call it a conspiracy. How do you like them apples? Jacob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn