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Emily.... Your MD is uniformed. Dr. Gerald Burke, of UCLA's Neck and Throat Clinic has been performing this procedure on Parkies for a coupla years and it's become SO mainstream that Kaiser Permanente, the world's oldest and largest HMO provides it for THEIR patients. As a matter of fact, this procedure has been around for YEARS and is used WORLD WIDE on cancer patients who've had treatment on their vocal cords, and for other patients who've other types of medical problems with their vocal cords (i.e., injury due to accidents, etc). It's also commonly used on elderly men who've suffered loss of vocal volume due to aging. The procedure IS relatively new where Parkinson's treatment is concerned because no one ever THOUGHT of using it on Parkies till about 2 years ago. Dr . Burke was apparently the first MD to THINK of, and TRY the procedure on Parkinson's patients. It was very successful, and the rest, as they say, is history. I'm sending you, via email, a copy of the UCLA Web about the collagen injection procedure and suggest you print a copy of it and send it on to your MD in order to further enlighten her. Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] -------- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of jim and emily jackson Sent: Thursday, August 06, 1998 5:38 AM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: collagen injections barb malllut: re your recent (ongoing?) collagen injections--we asked our neurologist last night about them when she was lauding the botox solution--she said they are not approved in the US and only available in Europe. True? Are yours in the "experimental" category, or is she simply uninformed? Emily Jackson [log in to unmask]