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Jacob The studies are being performed now. The Colorado group has completed or is near completion of one double blind study and the Mt. Sinai (NY)-Rush(Chicago)-Tampa group is over half done in a double blind 36 pt. study. The Colorado study runs 1 year and the Tampa study runs 2 yeARS AFTER the surgery is completed. Good luck with Medicaid and WMAP. Charlie Jacob Drollinger wrote: > > Dear Listfriends, > > I just received a letter in the mail from the state of Wisconsin Medicaid > office, on funding for fetal tissue implant surgery. > I knew that the government would not pay for the operation. However, I > figured that was a place to begin. > The MediCAID director mentioned that if the procedure is ever proved to be > effective, the committee would take it under advisement, and that they would > probably start paying for it. > My question is: How much evidence will be required before tissue transplants > are recognized as non-experimental. > > Jacob -- CHARLES T. MEYER, M.D. Middleton, WI [log in to unmask]