hi all i received a private request re the recent PMID posting and thought my answer might be helpful if it were public: In a message dated 1998/09/24 15:56:26, you write: << Where do I find this gem? Could you let me know? >> depends on which gem you're after! judith richards is at: judith richards <[log in to unmask]> the abstract of the pub-med article is at the pub-med site at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ enter the PMID [Pub-Med IDentification] number into the search window and bob's yer uncle! by the way [btw] if you want to do any background digging in the pd list archives at http://james.parkinsons.org.uk/ for example if you wanted to find out which pub-med articles have been posted to the pd list in the past about tolcapone you could enter the following as search criteria: tolcapone AND pmid your cyber-sibling in archyology janet janet paterson - 51/10 - almonte/ontario/canada http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/janet/ [log in to unmask]