billionaires

[Rupa88]

i dot know how many of you heard the " Doc vs Parkinson's" story

A doctor who paid almost 20 million dollars to get a stem cell transplant of brain about 3 years ago. He had PD for 15 years and now his symptoms are reversing.

Are people with money, power and PD are getting efficient treatment and we are left out?

Why Michael J Fox is not doing it?

[park_bear]

Link please.

[Rupa88 in reply to park_bear]

giving.massgeneral.org/stor...

[park_bear in reply to Rupa88]

He funded development, volunteered to be patient number one guinea pig, and hopes his treatment will serve a million patients or more. More power to him!

[chartist in reply to park_bear]

To bad MJFF doesn't think similarly, they have a bigger budget than him.

Art

[SanMateoPD]

This is a recent video about it from Roger Barker: youtube.com/watch?v=ixXDHgX...(Not working as expected?)

It just looks like very very slow progress. 10+ years on a project to do 11 trial transplants. Hopefully the other national efforts he mentions have more success!

There are also some very shady international "stem cell transplant" centers but afaik they're outside the scientific research norm.

[kaypeeoh in reply to SanMateoPD]

Why does a British accent make everyone sound like way smart people?

[gomelgo]

I find it interesting to consider that COVID shots were available within months of the discovery of the pandemic. And PD cures still take YEARS. Any one else considering why this is lately?