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Good resource is the current issue of : Movement Disorders Vol. 17, Suppl. 4, 2002 "Management of Parkinson’s Disease: An Evidence-Based Review" published by Movement Disorder Society The entire issue is "a systematic review of the literature dealing with the efficacy and safety of available treatments... aimed at identifying those treatments for which there is sound scientific support to justify their application (or avoidance) and to highlight where a lack of evidence points to the need for future clinical trials." TOPIcs include: prevention of disease progression; symptomatic control of Parkinson’s disease; prevention of motor complications; control of motor complications; and control of nonmotor features. In addition to reviewing currently available drugs, physical, occupational and speech therapy, counseling and treatments for depression are covered. Also DBS and neural transplantation surgeries. Currently this journal supplement is not available online, without a subscription. However it should be available in most health science libraries, and the articles can also be requested from your local public libraries thru inter library loan. See: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/issuetoc?ID=97516483 for the table of contents Linda ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn