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THANKS. WHATEVER WE THINK ABOUT THIS ISSUE, IT'D BE GOOD TO HAVE ALL THE FACTS.. -----Original Message----- From: Abi Murthy <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 1:31 PM Subject: Re: Rep. Chris Smith >About Fetal Tissue- Dad heard about Fetal tissue transplants helping PD >patients several years ago and he was very much against it. Then our >perception of PD was just that they had the tremor- now we know better :-( > >When Dad was first diagnosed about 2 yrs ago, I searched on PD and found >the home page of a scientist at Mass. General Hospital- he had worked on >fetal transplant research and there was one thing that he said that made >a lot of sense- that this was something that would never make it to the >mainstream simply because of the difficulties in ensuring a steady source >of the tissue- I know that this sounds crass, and totally animalistic (can't >think of a better word at the moment)- but he had put the issue in much >better words. > >I shall search for the page/link and post it sometime..