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The February, 1996 issue of the Mayo Clinic Health Letter has a brief 20 to 25 paragraph summary article entitled 'Parkinson's Disease' with sub headings "Between coping and a cure" "A chemical loss" "Signs and symptoms" "Finding a medication balance" "Targeting brain tissue" and "Ongoing research." The article contains nothing that those of us on the list do not already know, but it is a good, very brief summary. Two sentences caught my attention and I believe warrant quoting. The first is a statistical observation: "Somewhere between coping in the present and hoping for a future cure, 1 percent of Americans older than 60 are living with Parkinson's disease." And the observation that gives me some optimism and hope, and one that I have to keep reminding myself: "The disease is always progressive, but the rate at which symptoms develop and their severity vary." An understatement. -------------------- Sid Roberts 66/dx2 [log in to unmask]