hi all using the search criterion 'parkinson', i found that there were 135 new abstracts or articles added in the past 30 days at the PubMed site: <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/> i have posted a small selection of them to the list [separately] in re recent discussions and in order to get them included in our archives for future reference one of the sentences in the NEJM / Lang / Lozano summary bears repeating [and repeating and repeating..]: "At no time in the past have the basic and clinical sciences applied to Parkinson's disease been so active." your cyber-sibling in science janet