The Program to End Parkinsons

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With more than a million diagnosed sufferers in the United States and untold more who haven't yet been diagnosed, Parkinson's is biggest "orphan" disease this country has ever seen. Alzheimer's - which claims two to three times as many victims - receives more than ten times the government funding as Parkinson's for research and considerably more than that from private sources. None of the various Parkinson's Foundations are dedicated exclusively to funding research into the cure, focusing more on a broader spectrum of worthwhile goals including managing patients with the disease and the therapies which can mitigate and grant symptomatic relief.Meanwhile, according to many experts in the field, Parkinson's is the neurological disease closest to being cured. Ground breaking research into transplanting tissue into the brain has reversed a basic tenet of medicine - held to be a truth until recently - that the brain cannot be repaired. The part of the brain which Parkinson's attacks, the su