Good Morning All,
Here's the overnight "News & Views".... from the on-line media....
Hey! (I live in Vancouver... serviced the elevators in the CBC
building from 1971 - 1976, ate in the cafeteria.... ) ya don't s'pose??
Cheers ..... murray
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CANADA: CTV documentary on Michael Fox's Parkinson's
Raises New Medical Questions
http://canada.com/search/site/story.asp?id=53AF6B7D-D37F-4186-9C44-A7B051A5C41B
Parkinson's Link Possible in Michael J. Fox Series
Four People on '70s Sitcom Have The Disease
http://canada.com/search/site/story.asp?id=6AC8EBC1-38EE-4FF8-8118-AEA6D7BB0094
Was the Parkinson's disease that Canadian actor Michael J. Fox
has battled for the past dozen years caused by a virus he picked up
on a long-ago sitcom produced for Canadian TV?
It is possible, according to a new television documentary that says
Fox is one of four members of the short-lived "Leo and Me" sitcom
to subsequently be diagnosed with the degenerative disease.
http://www.ocregister.com/news/23parkinsonscci1.shtml
WASHINGTON DC: Coalition Urges A Ban On All Human Cloning
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/081/nation/Coalition_urges_a_ban_on_all_human_cloning+.shtml
SINGAPORE: Hunt On For Genes That Cause Parkinson's
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,109305,00.html?
SINGAPORE: New Scanner To Improve Cancer Diagnosis
(& Parkinson's)
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,109640,00.html?
SINGAPORE: Decision on Stem Cell Research Near
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=594&u=/nm/20020322/hl_nm/stemcall_singapore_1
CANADA: Technophiles Explore How Digital World Shapes Life
At Toronto's Digifest
New media artist David Rokeby's latest piece, inter/face, uses the
expressions on a viewer's face to activate a virtual world built
using letters of the alphabet.
And his devices aren't only for display purposes. Some are currently
being used by medical facilities for projects such as helping people
with Parkinson's disease to speak and write.
http://canada.com/news/story.asp?id={6909FFF7-9B26-4DBD-B528-9CAC91D1E59F}
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