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Thank God for drug companies that produce product after product for the fat, the balding and the impotent. In a world where like it or not companies MUST make a profit, what profit is there in prioritising the development of drugs that will be of use to a portion of 2 % of the population. None at all. We who suffer from minority diseases travel on the coat tails of the profits generated by drugs produced for combating obesity, baldness, and impotence. Of course the drug companies make profits from the drugs developed for diseases like PD, but they are relatively slow in coming. I suspect that any company who put their "cash cows" on the back burner in order to concentrate on developing drugs for PD, would soon go out of business which will profit no-one. I am as frustrated as anyone at the pace at which we are turning the corner around which, we are assured, lies the cure. I have to keep reminding myself that the phrase "round the corner" has a different meaning for someone like a researcher viewing PD in an historical context, than it has for someone like myself, confronted daily by the problems of living with a debilitating, remorseless enemy. Much as we would like it to be different we all know in our heart of hearts that the cure for PD is not going to be here tomorrow. The drug company that finally makes the breakthrough is going to need to be around for the long haul. I wish it healthy profits so that it can devote some of them to my problems. Dennis. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dennis Greene 48/11 [log in to unmask] http://members.networx.net.au/~dennisg/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++