Just tuned in - for the first time - on a television program called
"Breakthrough," funded by Glaxo Wellcome. Next week, they said in the
trailer, they rae going to have the lead story about deep brain stimulation.
Their web site, www.breakthroughtv.com, includes a listing of the
television stations in the U.S. on which the program is shown and the times
at which it appears. For example, it is on in Dallas at 6:00 PM Monday on
KDTN and on in Augusta, Georgia, at 1:00 PM Saturday on WEBA.
Here is their summary on next week's show:
Pallidal stimulation is the latest treatment option available
for people with Parkinson's Disease, the progressive
neurological disorder that robs its victims of their ability to
control their own muscles. A pacemaker-like device is
implanted in the chest, with leads attached to electrodes
implanted in the pallidal region of the brain. The signals
from the device interfere with the irregular signals in the
brain, inhibiting the symptoms of Parkinson's. Unlike
pallidotomy, the surgical procedure in which a lesion is
created in the pallidal region, thus relieving symptoms, this
procedure is non-destructive and reversible.
CONTACTS: Teri Charest, Media Relations
Representative, University of Minnesota Academic Health
Center, (612)624-4604; University of Minnesota News
Service website: www.umn.edu/urelate/news.html;
National Parkinson Foundation, (800)327-4545;
Parkinson's Disease Foundation, (800)457-6676, website:
www.parkinsons-foundation.org
The program which I just viewed was #143, and the lead story was on the
Sticht Center in Winston-Salem in North Carolina, with other stories on
breast-feeding and a cancer drug, tirapazamine.
Art
Arthur Hirsch [] [log in to unmask] [] Lewisville, TX
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