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http://www.cbs.com/navbar/feedback.html Dear Ms. Stahl, Thank you for presenting your in depth investigative report on Mr. Jim Finns Porcine Fetal Transplant to ameliorate his Parkinson's disease symptoms. It's important that Mr. Finns experience with this new surgery be given public exposure. As outstanding as the results are, however, newer developments continue. May I suggest that you bring this type of medical advances to the public as a multi-part feature. In addition, are you aware that a law funding increased research for Parkinson's disease called the Morris K. Udall Act signed in November 1997, is deliberately being ignored by the House and Senate Appropriation committees and therefore not funded? The bill, named after Morris K. Udall, Former Senator of Arizona for 27 years and now laying paralyzed in the final stage of Parkinson disease in a Virginia hospital, was passed through the herculean efforts of grassroots lobbying across the country. Unless this bill is funded, the estimated 1 million already suffering this hideous disease along with the 50,000 additional people diagnosed annually will assuredly face much the same fate as Mo Udall. Please consider a follow up story. Sincerely, Barbara Schirloff