hi all there have been a couple of requests for information on Tasmar which is the trade drug name of one of the two new comt inhibitors the generic drug name is tolcapone i have posted several news articles and pubmed abstracts on the new meds during the past year 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 terms in the search query window: tolcapone AND janet paterson [if you search on tolcapone only, you will be faced with a list of over 100 messages] 3. you should then received a list of approximately 19 messages 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]