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When I contacted his office over 2-1/2 years the project was a GO, however the return of Turner's symptoms may have changed things. Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "m power" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:38 PM Subject: Re: Dr. Levesque >i wrote to dr. levesque a week or two ago asking for > an update on his research - no response. > > Dennis Turner is the only person I have ever heard > of to undergo this procedure. Presumably, since Dr. > Levesque has not published his results (at least not > that i can find), the trial is either still underway > or has stopped for some reason. > > Basically, without a double-blind (if that is > possible in the case of brain surgery) placebo (or > sham surgery) controlled study with multiple > participants, designed to measure efficacy, i don't > think there is any way of knowing whether the > symptomatic benefit Turner experienced was due to the > - i am not sure what it is called, but apparently even > sham surgery often produces measurable symptomatic > benefit in PD (why we can't all just have sham brain > surgery is another question entirely!) or to actual > integration and proper function of adult stem cells. > > > > Nick & Oanh <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Does anyone know of other parkies who have had adult > stem cells injected > into their brain? > > Anyone know why there has been so little activity on > this subject? > > Why hasn't anyone else had this treatment? > > Very perplexing. > > Nick Drozdowski > caregiver for Oanh, 14 years pd > > Nick & Oanh wrote: > >> In May 1999, Dr. Levesque injected adult stem cells > into the brain of >> Dr. Dennis Turner. The treatment proved to be very > successful, as Dr. >> Turner enjoyed 5 years of normal movement before the > PD came back on his >> left side. >> >> I am trying to find Dr. Turner. Can anyone help me? >> >> Nick Drozdowski >> caregiver for Oanh, 14 years pd >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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