is plenty going on in research. Wow 75 programs. When I was first dx (96) there were zilch, zappo, zip, goin on. Today's research into our disease has an intensity about it that I would not have predicted five years ago.

No one has mentioned the quiet achiever Michael J Fox and his dedicated researchers who have raised $US100million for PD Research and the fact former Intel boss Andy Grove has invested $40million of his own wealth as well as lend his considerable expertise in business and "get things done" attitude.

Litigate, litigate, litigate, hopfully the U.S. will sort that problem out, and minimize the rubbish that lawyers can sue anybody at the smell of an oily rag.

The U.S. and the planet it seems have outgrown the FDA. The speed of progress is moving into the outer layers of the stratosphere while the FDA civil servants are still coming to grips with Columbus's discovery/arrival on the shores of America all those centuries ago.