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hi all At 10:37 1999/06/30 -0400, judith wrote, in part: >June 30, 1999 > >Parkinson's Money Doesn't Add Up, Group Says > >WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Parkinson's disease activists accused the >National Institutes of Health (NIH) Tuesday of failing to spend money >allocated for research into the disease. > >They said an investigation of the budget at the NIH showed that of every >$4 allegedly spent on Parkinson's by the National Institute of >Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), $1, or 25 percent, is spent >on research that will not benefit patients with Parkinson's. > >``Put simply, the numbers just don't add up and we'd like to know why,'' >Parkinson's Action Network president Joan Samuelson said in a statement. > >The group and four Democratic members of Congress -- Sen. Paul Wellstone >of Minnesota, and Reps. Lane Evans of Illinois, Carolyn Maloney of New York >and Mark Udall of Colorado -- sent a letter to NIH director Dr. >Harold Varmus asking for an explanation. > >They also demanded that Varmus ensure the NIH spend the full allocated >$100 million for Parkinson's research... go Joan Samuelson! you are one of my heroes! janet janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada a new voice http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/ [log in to unmask]