Do you really think there will be a cure for PD soon?
Why or why not?

Professor Mat During carried out clinical trials in a gene therapy treatment on Nathan Klien and eleven others with advanced Parkinson's. Klien made headlines across the U.S. and around the world. And the trials were deemed a success. Fast forward to 2008 and the company involved in those early trials Neurologix www.neurologix.net are underway with a second gene therapy trial with full FDA approval

Ceregene are also starting phase two trials with their innovative cere-120 program and their gene therapy delivery of neurturin appears very exciting.

Will there be a cure.......YES......
How long.............................................. ...........

in my opinion ProSavin is the most exciting trial around at the moment. Words like "cure" are mentioned with results evident weeks after application so there is hope that we might see some preliminary reports by the summer.

Don't forget Cogane, another with high hopes.

"Cure" is such a big word, I am hopeful that science will keep me with a reasonable quality of life for a reasonable duration, if this happens then I would term that as a "cure".

Neil.

This topic has been discussed a lot, but I always find it interesting.
Firist - what is a cure?
Is it finding something that controls symptoms of PD?
I'd buy that!
Or do you mean something that grows back what we have lost (cell-wise, etc)?
I'd buy that, too!

The first is more likely, of course. ProSavin sounds like it takes care of both. and nothing against Europe, but it's being tested in France. The US doesn't always approve great finds like this.

Now, to answer your question about finding a cure soon:
that, too much be qualified.

We're hot on the trail of a cure - I read where there are 75 drugs/treatments in the pipeline. But in the US we are electing a new President - it will depend on how "research minded" he/she is. Yes - I think we will find a cure - as far as soon - it all depends on the $$ and whether or not the pharmaceutical business thinks it's worth researching more. (Pharma has a lot of money to lose if we find a cure - think of all those pills we take!)

I think the research on a blood test to diagnose PD will be a big help. I can imagine there are many misdiagnosed.

Peggy

a cure is life without ever having PD again
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a cure means - they want to live again...
a cure means - they have hope in their hearts
a cure means to be free of illness and feel young again
I was young and my glory daze passed - and I have learned abit
I received patience, and I have grown a richer life through the people I have met and loved, and I have seen those that I would have thought would be there for me, walk away and all of these adversities have made me a better person... I have grown in ways - that I never would have if I had not
been ill and it was not all fun - yet - I can not change one thing in my life
that would have happened anyway - you dont want this to be your destiny,
neither did I - yet if you let go of the rush to finish - you will see amazing things...
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yes we may have cures,
this may sound a bit harsh - yet this is true -
life is not counted by the amount of days in our lives - yet by the amount of life in our days...

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never ever give up hope
and remember we are only human -
no one gets to live forever in this mud suit..

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Thank you Tena always for your wonderful treaties .. I think it is a fact that you may be "healthy" but live a miserable life and you may be happy even with PD. It is all in the mind and attidude ... we need to make the best of a life which is only a brief dream

Heard this before....we can only hold on to the hope that it is true.
Perhaps we have some light at the end of the PD tunnel?