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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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Parkinson's Progressive Markers Initiative
johnt -
you wrote:
"I'm thinking of the different rates of progression from person to person, which suggests that there is more than one disease process at work and that there are some theraputic regimes which are better than others."
the PPMI study being funded by Fox hopes to shed light on what you are talking about - it's difficult to design treatments for something we don't fully understand. Tracking biological changes in the body over several years time will hopefully yield markers that can then be targeted for therapy. It's a long process, but at least it is finally underway.
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Carey
“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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