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Dear Listfriends, The following chat may be of interest to some of you; you will need to register at the WebMD site, however. ==================================================== WebMD Community Services Parkinson's Disease Community Update Week of June 21, 1999 http://my.webmd.com ------------------------------------------------------- If you do not wish to receive a weekly newsletter from WebMD, simply click the "reply" button in your mail program, then type in the word "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the "Subject" field. WebMD Customer Service will unsubscribe this email address within two - three business days. ------------------------------------------------------- Hi Everyone. I encourage you to check out our chat calendar to see what we have planned for the upcoming weeks. http://my.webmd.com/calendar ** Upcoming Chat ** CHAT: How Parkinson's Disease Affects the Whole Family GUEST: John Lauerman and Margery Silver, ED.D. DATE: Tuesday June 29, 1999 TIME: 2 p.m. Pacific (5 p.m. Eastern, 9 p.m. GMT) WHERE: WebMD Auditorium On Tuesday June 29 at 2 p.m. Pacific (5 p.m. Eastern, 9 p.m. GMT), WebMD proudly welcomes Margery Silver, ED.D. and John Lauerman to discuss how Parkinson's Disease affects the whole family. Parkinson's Disease takes an astonishing toll on the affected individuals and their caretakers. Dr. Silver has had both personal and professional experience dealing with Parkinson's Disease and she will share her insights with you. As a neuropsychologist and Associate Director of the New England Centenarian Study at Harvard Medical School, she has written extensively on the cognitive and emotional aspects of the disease. Read more about the chat here: http://my.webmd.com/event/472597 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** New in Parkinson's Disease Research** "Parkinson's disease shown to aggregate in families" WESTPORT, Jun 21 (Reuters Health) - A European population- based study has shown that Parkinson's disease (PD) aggregates in families and that the strength of the association is age- dependent. The results are published in the June issue of Neurology. Dr. A. Elbaz of Hopital de la Salpetriere in Paris, France, and colleagues there and elsewhere, reporting on behalf of the EUROPARKINSON Study Group, explain that previous studies of familial aggregation of PD have been hospital- or clinic- based, and may have been subject to selection bias. Read the rest of the article at: http://my.webmd.com/news/523103 Be Well, Desmond_WebMD Online Community Moderator * * * * * * * * * * * * * Our help pages can be accessed by visiting http://my.webmd.com/help. If you have forgotten your password, you can have it emailed to you by visiting https://my.webmd.com/forgot. If you have any other questions, you may e-mail our Customer Service team at [log in to unmask] -- Kathrynne Holden, MS, RD Medical nutrition therapy Author: "Eat well, stay well with Parkinson's disease" "Parkinson's disease: assessing and managing unique nutrition needs" http://www.nutritionucanlivewith.com/