Re: Finding the cause of PD

[Ted Menser <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, we remember something about that.  It seems we've been hearing that a
cure is only 3 -10 years away for quite some time now (at least a decade).
Even our neurologist said that to us about 3 years ago.  Alas, it may indeed
turn out to be like finding the cure for cancer has been in this country.
We would seriously doubt if the "cure" would come from the USA.  Most likely
from abroad.  But that is just our opinion.

Regards,
Ted & Carole


----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott E. Antes" <Scott.Antes@xxxxxxx>
To: "Ted Menser" <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 6:16 AM
Subject: RE: Finding the cause of PD


> >===== Original Message From Ted Menser <ted@xxxxxxxxxx> =====
> > > Personally, I'm tired of the merry-go-round of promises that turn into
> > > sour
> > > pickles!  I wonder when we will use our combined strength to say  ENOUGH!
> >
> > Well said, E.
> >
> > Ted & Carole
>
> Speaking of promises, does anyone remember about nine years ago, a panel
> of
> medical experts on TV talking about how they had the "cure" for PD?  All
> they
> needed, they said, was the money to implement it.  It gave us such hope,
> since
> Laureen had just been diagnosed.  In spite of funding opportunities since
> then, the people in that panel seem to faded into the woodwork.
>
> In 1997, I found a site on the Internet discussing a cure for PD.  A
> pharmaceutical company (forget which) claimed to have cured PD in mice,
> was
> having success in monkeys, and was soon to be doing human trials.  I told
> Laureen about it, and she wanted to be part of those human trials.  When
> she
> called the drug company, they told her that they'd just sold the formula
> to
> Amgen.  She called Amgen, who told her that all further development had
> come
> to a halt until the company could decide whether or not it would be
> profitable
> enough for them to continue the research.
>
> On a related note, I used to live in the Cleveland, OH area.  In 1973 or
> thereabouts, I was talking to a neighbor.  Turned out he was researcher at
> one
> of the many huge medical facilities in Cleveland.  He was bragging to me
> about
> a cancer detection method that his lab had developed.  I asked him how
> much
> progress he and his colleagues had made towards developing a *cure* for
> cancer.  He looked at me oddly and replied, "That's not something in which
> we're interested."
>
> So much of this is related to money--how much is needed to find a "cure,"
> how
> much can be made selling that "cure."  I worked in the corprate world for
> over
> three decades, and the bottom line always was written in dollar signs.
>
> Scott
>
> Scott E. Antes
> Department of Anthropology
> Northern Arizona University
> Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5200

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