Dear Members, I am becoming a member of this group for one reason: My father has PD and is 80 years old with some rather severe complications. He is presently hospitalized and is passing blood in his feces along with an infection in his esophagus. The MD(s) in charge did not inform my mother that taking sinemet and milk/milk proteins/animal proteins would cause a reduction in the amount of L-dopa absorbed (I assume from a previous message posted that this is a true fact -- if anyone has an idea where the original journal paper this information came from is please contact me). There are probably a number of things they didn't explain and I feel that becoming part of this user group would be very useful (by the way, you can get a binhex converter by FTP'ing it from oak.oakland.edu or going to the URL address http:/www.acs.oakland.edu/oak/ -- hope this helps the person inquiring about such a feature). My e-mail address is [log in to unmask] and my World Wide Web homepage: http:/www.! eng.auburn.edu/:80/users/mikeb/ Thanks much, Professor Michael E. Baginski Dept. of Electrical Engineering Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849