Say, whatever happened to the heat-felt belief we were always proclaim to
every one, from Congress on up[ starting in '96 ??] that the cure for PD was
only $100 million & 5 years away? I, like many of us on this List at the
time, sent out hundreds of postcards to everyone we know, asking them to
please just put in a word to their congresspersons to approve the increase
in the budget. Our request was later clarified to be $100 million per year
for 5 years, I think, but the solution was still tantalizingly close. It
seems to me that our boast came from some guy at Harvard or someplace
similar, and that our share of the Federal Budget at the time was $60
million vs. $1,240 million for AIDS, with a similar # of sufferers, 800,000.
Did we give up in getting the extra hundred million, or did we give up on
the concept that the extra money would make a difference? I believe that
the Federal allocation for AIDS research is now closer to $1,500.
Also, re the new allocation for Stem Cell research, is there any
assurance that any of it will go specifically to PD?
Sorry for this request, which is mostly a request for a history lesson.
BBA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mario A. Gonzalez" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 2:36 PM
Subject: Stem cells - CNN
Tommy Thompson: "...the cure for this diseases are not around the corner..I
wish they were"
Steven Stice - Georgia University: " Clinical trials may begin within 5
years....subjects being treated with the cells... within 7 to 10 years..."
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