Join the Brunch Bunch

November 11, 2006

at 12:00 Noon

at

The Franklin Hotel

301 South James St.

Rome, NY

   Menu includes:

     Baked Chicken           Eggplant

     Fried Greens  Tossed Salad

Ziti with Marinara Sauce

               Mini dessert tray

 Bread & butter, coffee, tea & decaf

 Served family style

 

Price: $13.50 including tip

 

Reservations: by November 6th

Call Nancy McCaffrey 337-2467

                    or

      Marge Moylan 867-5770

 

 

 

New Numbers:

 

                                   

            Marge and Pat Moylan have a new home phone number which is 315-867-5770.  The old number is out of service with no further information available.  The reason for the change is that the local Herkimer exchange - 866 - is now a toll free number like 800.  The Moylans were being bombarded by misdirected calls. Thus the change.

            The other change is that CNYPSG, Inc. now has its own phone number for the first time.  The number is 315-866-1333. When you dial it, you will be connected to an answering machine with a recording of information about CNYPSG.  Anyone calling for information can leave a name and number and someone will return the call.  This number is for nonmembers and new people, people who are looking for support.  The beauty of this is that we will finally have a listing in the phone directory where anybody should be able to find us.   

 

 

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Ongoing Research

 

            Researchers are studying the continuous delivery of levodopa into the intestine through an intestinal tube with an attached pump. They hope this will smooth out the peaks and valleys that happen when levodopa is taken orally, but it is not clear whether this method will deliver medicine to the brain, where it is needed, more effectively. This treatment is not yet approved or available for clinical use.

            Another drug in the late stages of development is rotigotine, which will be delivered by a skin patch. Although this drug is not yet approved for clinical use in the United States, enthusiasm about the research results for this drug is leading other researchers to study this method of delivery for other drugs, including levodopa and lisuride.

 

For a PD cure
 

       

            We thank the following people for their donations of pennies which will go to The Parkinson Alliance for research:

Erhard & Margaret Gantner, Barbara Grogan, John & Thea Matterese, Robert & Roberta Schaal, and Norman & Carol Burak.

 

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