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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: "all the way over on the West Coast"
Posts: 1,032
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: "all the way over on the West Coast"
Posts: 1,032
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Curious -
Not sure what kind of statistics there are, but the Department of Defense is a big spender for Parkinson's research. The Neurotoxin Exposure Treatment Research Program (NETRP) is funded in the U.S. Army Military Operational Medicine Research Program under the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command.
This is language from a letter requesting support from Congress for the program:
"NETRP research improves military readiness. American troops are routinely exposed to a wide range of chemicals and neurotoxins that may increase the risk of developing neurodegenerative conditions, particularly Parkinson's disease. Understanding how exposures occur, the incidence of disease afterwards, and how these conditions may be effectively treated, cured, or prevented allow the Department of Defense (DoD) to better protect military personnel, minimize the risk of future exposures, and improve the readiness of American military forces.
In addition to helping military personnel, NETRP research breakthroughs also benefit the more than one million Americans with Parkinson's disease, including 42,000 veterans and 60,000 newly diagnosed Americans each year."
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“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.” — Susan B. Anthony
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