my rep's health assistant, whom I have gotten to know and like [not to be confused with the rep - Dave Weldon. R Fl - asked why they should have to fund NETRP, when the NIH has 26 agencies and tons of money. Not hiding the implication that the agencies are mismanaged and zerhouni really doesn't have that much control.

He has a point, and it was a fair question. I acknowledged that if that were true I was learning something. Then of course afterward you think about it and what you might have said.

I would have distinguished the military as being completely separate, if for no other reason, the majority of us get PD from environment/genetics, whereas they are in a magnified environment on all counts and we here at home don't tend to get PD from having a bomb go off beside our heads, blowing someone into pieces. Too sleepy to correct grammar.

This is important research, PD specific, and up to us to keep shouting for higher dollar amounts and even renewal at all every single year.

Amen
paula