Fw: Re: Rep. Chris Smith

[Bruce Anderson <bbanderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

THANKS.  WHATEVER WE THINK ABOUT THIS ISSUE, IT'D BE GOOD TO HAVE ALL THE
FACTS..

-----Original Message-----
From: Abi Murthy <abi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: Rep. Chris Smith


>About Fetal Tissue- Dad heard about Fetal tissue transplants helping PD
>patients several years ago and he was very much against it.  Then our
>perception of PD was just that they had the tremor- now we know better :-(
>
>When Dad was first diagnosed about 2 yrs ago, I searched on PD and found
>the home page of a scientist at Mass. General Hospital- he had worked on
>fetal transplant research and there was one thing that he said that made
>a lot of sense- that this was something that would never make it to the
>mainstream simply because of the difficulties in ensuring a steady source
>of the tissue- I know that this sounds crass, and totally animalistic
(can't
>think of a better word at the moment)- but he had put the issue in much
>better words.
>
>I shall search for the page/link and post it sometime..