Hi All,

This is a rather incredulous story. My hair stylist's mother has advanced PD and she has another client besides me with it. This man was in the middle of DBS and made the surgeons take everything out because he was in so much dystonic pain from being off meds. The doctors did as he asked. His doctor left the room and came back to tell him that he was in luck. Duodopa had just been approved!!! Better yet, he could have the surgery done in July!!! Like as in a month from now, not next year, or five years. Seems doctors have had equipment ready to go just waiting for Abbott results?

Too good to be true?! I am usually pretty skeptical of this sort of hearsay, but the doctor spreading the news is my former MDS Dr. Lewitt who designs clinical trials himself and who most recently was involved with Neurologix in the GABA trials, so he would have access to "insider" info.

Anyone else hear any such news?


Laura