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Please see "Fight of his Life" - an article about Steve Kaufman, one of the Amgen GDNF trial participants at http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/lifestyles/83145,4_5_JO0 5_PARKINSONS_S1.article The Kaufmans have been trying to convince Amgen to provide compassionate use of GDNF for the trial participants and to restart the clinical trials. As the article states, "Although GDNF drastically improved Steve's quality of life, the Kaufmans say they no longer are fighting just for themselves. They now fight for every person stricken with Parkinson's, a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that affects the control of muscles. "The drug's effective," Maggie said. "We know it's effective. Everyone that sees Steve knows it's effective." I met Steve and his wife Maggie at the World Parkinson's Congress in February 2006, and I honestly could not tell that he has PD. And this was about 1 1/2 years after the treatment had been halted. For more on the GDNF see: www.pdpipeline.org and www.grassrootsconnection.com Linda Herman ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn