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At 01:41 PM 5/20/98 -0600, you wrote: >WESTPORT, May 20 (Reuters) - Amantadine, a drug used for decades >to treat the early stages of Parkinson's disease, appears to >reduce dyskinesias and motor fluctuations in late-stage disease >when given as an adjuvant to levodopa. "This discovery is >exciting," Dr. Thomas L. Chase of the National Institute of >Neurological Disorders & Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland, explains >in a statement from the Institute, "...because surgery was the >only option to treat dyskinesias and motor fluctuations...and is >not an effective treatment for all patients." > >For details, go to ... >http://ipn.intelihealth.com/ipn/ihtIPN?c=187792 >_ > >-- >Kathrynne Holden, MS, RD >"Nutrition you can live with!" >Medical nutrition therapy >http://www.nutritionucanlivewith.com/ >Tel: 970-493-6532 // Fax: 970-493-6538 > >I always thoughtAmantadine helped Gordon. Thank you, belatedly, for Potassium response. I seem to have recovered. it is all very odd..T.L. Seese