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listfriends: two items: 1. in case you didn't hear about it, tomorrow's edition of "20-20" (ABC television network's weekly magazine program) is scheduled to run a segment on Parkinson's (and perhaps other) surgeries. Likely (though not certain) angle will be the ethical issue of "sham" surgery (that is, double-blind studies in which one group gets the fake surgery and the other gets the "real thing," such as was done in the recent neural transplant studies for Parkinson's disease.) Bear in mind that schedules sometimes change ... 2. speaking of which, the results of the world's FIRST double-blind neural transplant study will be announced in Toronto, at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology., tomorrow (Wednesday). lead scientists include Dr. Curt Freed from University of Colorado and Stanley Fahn from Columbia Presbyterian in New York (who is also PDF's scientific director). Watch for items on the wires and in the papers, beginning wednesday evening. robin elliott, executive director, parkinson's disease foundation