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ListFriends: Fresh off their tour de ofrce with last month's article on Michael J. Fox and Parkinspon's disease, People magazine has struck again in the edition now on the stands (January 11) with a three-page "Q and A" on Parkinson's disease, featuring Dr. Stanley Fahn, Houston Merritt professor of neurology at Columbia University and (yes, we're proud!) scientific director of the Parkinson's Disease Foundation. It's a compact, useful little piece, with good celeb pix. It wil be helpful both educationally (to a general People readership which doesn't know much about Parkinson's) and in public relations terms (that is, telling the world about the importance of a medical condition that most people were not aware of until quite recently). It's not at all "downbeat" (would be out of character with the magazine if it were!) but at the same time I do believe that it will NOT offend those of our ListServ members who feel that much of the recent coverage of PD has been just a bit too cheery -- almost as if PD were not a serious business. I hope I'm right. For those who are interested, the idea for the piece came right out of the earlier one (on Fox). The people at People got so much response from the earlier article that they decided to run this as a follow-up for those folks who wanted to know more about the disease. Their Chicago bureau called Judy Rosner at the UPF ... Judy called me ... and Dr. Fahn said he would be available. Does any one else have an impression that the Parkinson's community is on a bit of a roll here? Happy New Year, everyone! robin elliott, exec dir, parkinson's disease foundation ps i apologize for not putting this posting out earlier; on new year's eve, i was told they were holding the piece for two weeks. yeah, right!