hi all first, a barometric flashback: --------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 03:19:20 -0400 Subject: a barometer, maybe hi all a couple of years ago i discovered the goldmine which is pubmed a source of over 9,000,000 published medical studies/abstracts if i did a general search way back when for "parkinson"-related abstracts added in the prior "30 days", i usually found 30 - 40 - 50 abstracts yesterday i found 143 this is not a one-shot deal it is part of a trend which has been getting 'worse' each month over the next little while i will post a few of those abstracts which caught my eye for my usual reasons: 1. in order to share them with you and 2. in order to get them into our archives eventually, and gradually, i plan on posting the ones i find most interesting [and which may pertain to recent cyber-"threads"] in the "medical abstracts" section of the "my PIEnet words" section of my web site "a new voice" in the meantime keep your eyeballs peeled JAnet of PIEnet --------------------------------------------- and now back to the present: i searched again in pubmed using 'parkinson' 'last 30 days' as the criteria and this time *** 178 *** citations were found the highest number yet!!! i've posted a partial citation summary listing separately i will post some of the actual abstracts [if available] of the articles cited during the coming weeks in the meantime if you want to read the abstract go to the pubmed wwweb site and use the PMID number as your search criteria a lot of these seem to be from one journal ADVANCES IN NEUROLOGY ISSN: 0091-3952 [maybe published in time for the big conference in vancouver this weekend?] janet janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset snail-mail: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada website: a new voice <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> e-mail: <[log in to unmask]>