J.R. Bruman wrote: >The recent exchange of anecdotes etc about various environmental toxins >brings up something I have mentioned before: a nationwide, or even >worldwide, registry of PD cases. There are scientists trying right now >with limited data to correlate environment with incidence. Such a >registry is not a task for amateurs. It would be a BIG project facing >lots of difficult problems, such as what questions to ask, how to preserve >privacy, how to account for incipient or undiagnosed cases, how to exclude >cases that are not really PD, and so forth. But if environmental causes >are important, as many people suspect, such a registry might reveal the >answers we are all looking for. I think if not by some government organiz- >ation (save us!) perhaps it could be undertaken by one of the civilian >support institutions, if enough people start asking for it. Comment? > I agree. So, who do we ask? And, where do we start? /\ /\ Cindy C. Jones \/ \/ ABAC Computer Center ABAC 31, 2802 Moore Hwy. /\ Tifton, GA 31794 PHONE: 912-386-3116 \____/ FAX: 912-386-7339 [log in to unmask] RULES FOR LIVING: 1) Don't sweat the small stuff. 2) EVERYTHING is small stuff.