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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