hi all for those 'newbies' to the pd list cyber family here is some info on searching for information on PubMed studies in the pd list archives since every message ever posted to the pd list is automatically included in our evergrowing pd list archives our archives contain a vast amount of information dating back to the list's creation in november 1993 by our esteemed 'list mom' barb patterson during the past year i have posted over 100 abstracts of current published medical studies on parkinson's disease as obtained from the free PubMed website provided by the US government my purpose in posting them was twofold: to provide up to date information to our list family members to ensure the information is included in our archives for future reference [ and maybe a future 'aha' ] as i understand it, at some point in the future, we hope to re-gain access to the search option [using e-mail] which is [was] part of the listserve software as provided by the pd listserver home at the university of toronto in the meantime, those of us with web access can search the pd list archives at the 'James' website kindly provided by Simon Coles: 1. go to his website: "Welcome to James" at: http://new.parkinsons.org.uk/index.htm 2. click on the 'hot link' to the search page and then enter the following term in the search query window: PMID alternatively, if you wanted to search for all studies posted that refer to selegiline [for example] in particular enter the following terms in the search query window: PMID AND selegiline 3. you should then be presented with a list of postings click on one of them to look at it you could then print it, or download it, or mail it to yourself knowledge = power your cyber-sibling in archyology janet janet paterson 50-9 / sinemet-selegiline-prozac almonte-ontario-canada / [log in to unmask]