Along with this Forum, I hope to bring daily Parkinson's related news items to PD community as a whole. Many people within the PD community don't frequent this forum...their loss...so I have both the forum posts and the blog posts.

• The mere posting of an item is not necessarily a reflection of my feelings or beliefs of or about the subject matter contained within the news item.
• Upon clicking on a "Read more..." you will be linked in a new window to the source of the news item for ease of returning to the blog.
• I will do my best to find and post as many relevant news items as possible, but I may miss one from time to time. If I do miss an item that you feel it should be included, especially for archiving purposes, please email me and include: Article title, date, first sentence, name of published location (e.g. Rueters), and the URL...the latter is very important.
• I will also do my best to remove inactive URL links when I find them.

The blog includes

• a Notification by Email when new items are posted, and
• a RSS Feed.

I hope you will visit soon and often.

Carolyn - thank you for your hard work!! This is a TERRIFIC resource!!

Carolyn, WOW. Your site is very helpful. thank you for all your hard work. madelyn

Beautiful and tremendously well designed and welcoming. It is so generous of you to take the time each day to share all this with us all. Your blog is brilliant.
Thank you, and thank you,

from a grateful birte

Carolyn, this is a very well set-up, easy to use blog. Very user friendly. Thank you for doing such a great job!

thanks.gif all for your kind words.

There are many PWPs out there doing far more important work then my collecting and posting the news. So as not to clutter this forum, I do try to be selective about what I personally post here. I have started posting far more on the blog.

I am just collecting the news and putting it in one place for anyone who wants to read it.

I know for a fact that some...right here in this forum...see me at trying to compete for first place in news posting, but that is not the case. I have also been told that I don't sort the news well, that I should take care with items that are biased. Bias is relative. I may not see bias where another person may see bias.

Actually, I don't sort the news at all. I post what comes down the news pipeline and into my Reader...which is a very long list of Feeds (newspapers, scientific journals, professional pharma magazines,etc.), which I add too when I see something that would be a good source, and post it. It is not my job to decide what is "biased" and what is not.

The news is the news. Journal articles are just like news, they are filled with pros and cons...agree or disagree with the content. Sadly though, so many journal articles remain behind expensive subscriptions and can't be read by regular people like me and most of you.

For example, when I began my research into Sham Surgery, while considering participation in CERE-120, I found that 99.9% of the information and discussion was behind costly subscriptions and had to depend on another PWP who is a research librarian to find writings and send them to me. I wish I could post them here for everyone to read and become educated about the topic, but I can't.

As it says in my signature below: "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." --Abigail Adams

Oh yes, and I have also been told I elaborate too much when I write personal replies to some threads, which is why I don't reply to threads very often. Oh well, I can't make everyone happy. It isn't my job to do so anyway.

I will stop now. I have been my usual long-winded self.

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity.
In the end there are no certain answers.
Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College

There are any number of ways that those who don't like what you are doing can deal with it. Like not reading it! Sheesh!

Oh Rick, must you make it so simple? lol......paula

....that is, indeed, one good lookin' blog! Congratulations!