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At 00:20 1999/09/13 -0700, barb mallut wrote, in part:
>Dear List-family
>I gotta phone call from a member of my PD support group asking me
>for info on (phonetic spelling) "Supernouckular Palsy," as her
>hubby's PD diagnosis was changed to that PD act-alike yesterday...


i did a search at:

Google
<http://www.google.com/>

and came up with:

Society for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Inc. (SPSP)
<http://www.psp.org/>

i also did a search of our list archives and came up with these [pared down]:

> search supranuclear in parkinsn since today-300
>Item #   Date   Time  Recs   Subject
>------   ----   ----  ----   -------
>55428 99/01/24 00:38   40   Requip reaction/ MRI
>55431 99/01/24 03:45   52   Re: Requip reaction/ MRI
>55455 99/01/24 14:14  101   Fw: Requip reaction/ MRI
>56255 99/02/07 06:20   89   PSP LISTSERV AVAILABLE
>56297 99/02/07 21:07   31   Re: CBGD and PSP
>57100 99/03/03 09:45   34   Re: PSP
>58480 99/04/12 03:05  291   seattle post article 1: PD: The silent epidemic
>59713 99/05/07 19:28   60   Answers to Visual Problems
>59716 99/05/07 21:41   66   Treating visual problems in PD
>62762 99/07/02 17:34   53   PMID: 10214747: PET imaging in PD and PSP
>66388 99/08/23 04:52   31   PMID: 10451753: Differential diagnosis of
parkinsonism.
>66877 99/08/30 19:13  288   CSR SEP 99
>
>To order a copy of these postings, send the following command:
>
>     GETPOST PARKINSN XXXXX
>
>[where XXXXX = Item # in left column above]
>
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these search results may appear impressive
however, i had a slight advantage;
i knew how to spell psp!

aren't there any search engines out there which can do 'fuzzy' searches?
[i.e. take spelling variations into account?]


janet

janet paterson
52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset
613 256 8340 po box 171 almonte ontario canada K0A 1A0
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