letter sent to CBS

[BSCHIRLOFF@xxxxxxx]

Dear Ms. Stahl,

Thank you for presenting your in depth investigative report on Mr. Jim Finns
Porcine Fetal Transplant to ameliorate his Parkinson's disease symptoms.  It's
important that Mr. Finns experience with this new surgery be given public
exposure.  As outstanding as the results are, however, newer developments
continue.  May I suggest that you bring this type of medical advances to the
public as a multi-part feature.

In addition, are you aware that a law funding increased research for
Parkinson's disease called the Morris K. Udall Act signed in November 1997, is
deliberately being ignored by the House and Senate Appropriation committees
and therefore not funded?

The bill, named after Morris K. Udall, Former Senator of Arizona for 27 years
and now laying paralyzed in the final stage of Parkinson disease in a Virginia
hospital, was passed through the herculean efforts of grassroots lobbying
across the country.

Unless this bill is funded, the estimated 1 million already suffering this
hideous disease along with the 50,000 additional people diagnosed annually
will assuredly face much the same fate as Mo Udall.

Please consider a follow up story.

Sincerely,
Barbara Schirloff