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- <text id=92TT2717>
- <title>
- Dec. 07, 1992: Parkinson's Progress
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Dec. 07, 1992 Can Russia Escape Its Past?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 30
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- Parkinson's Progress
- </hdr><body>
- <p>Three new studies show that fetal-tissue transplants do help
- patients
- </p>
- <p> One of the most promising experiments in the treatment of
- Parkinson's disease involves the use of fetal-tissue
- transplants. At least 100 patients worldwide have had such
- tissue injected into their damaged brains. Now the first major
- published studies from teams that pioneered the technique
- document startling improvements in some patients. Following
- operations, Parkinson's sufferers who had trouble performing the
- most ordinary chores slowly became able to walk without falling,
- assume more care of themselves and even drive a car, according
- to three reports in the New England Journal of Medicine. It is
- not yet clear, however, whether the benefits are temporary or
- permanent.
- </p>
- <p> Federal support of such fetal-tissue research is currently
- banned in the U.S as a result of the Reagan and Bush
- administrations' desire to placate antiabortion forces who
- feared that women would terminate pregnancies to provide tissue
- for transplants. President-elect Clinton opposes the ban.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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