Hi Friends, My sister brought me a printout from a website called "Friends of Israel". (foigm.org). Under the headling "New drug for Parkinsons paients, it says, The new drug called L-Dopa ethyl ester was developed by Prof Daphna Atlas of the Hebrew University and Prof Eldad Melamed of the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus, and financed by Teva Pharmaceuticals. The material, synthesized in Atlas's lab in Jerusalem, has three US patents. This was dated Feb/March 1998. Has anyone heard of this? Lanier Maddux Chattanooga Tenn. ([log in to unmask])