=============================================================== == == == ----------- ALS INTEREST GROUP ----------- == == ALS Digest (#31, 27 MAR 1993) == == == == To subscribe, to unsubscribe, to request back issues, == == to contribute notes, etc. to ALS Digest, please send == == e-mail to: == == bro@huey.met.fsu.edu (Bob Broedel) == == == == All interested people may "broadcast" messages to == == ALS Digest subscribers by sending to: == == als@huey.met.fsu.edu == == == =============================================================== (1) ===== News re Regeneron ========== Here is a brief excerpt from a UPI report. Some of us are interested in hearing about the "preliminary" results of the Phase II clinical trials of CNTF (that are to be announced soon). Maybe the announcement will be made this coming Tuesday ??? ----- The UPI Weekahead: EVENTS OF TUESDAY MARCH 30 NEW YORK -- Leonard Schleifer, chairman and CEO of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals guest speaker at New York Society of Security Analysts Inc., 11:30 a.m., 71 Broadway, 2 floor. Contact 212-344-8450. United Press International Reported on March 26, 1992 (2) ===== Other related news ========== United Press International 25 MAR 1993 Ex-Mouseketeer Funicello launches perfume at Disneyland. ANAHEIM, Calif. (UPI) -- Actress and ex-Mouseketeer Annette Funicello returned to Disneyland Thursday to launch her own perfume, Cello by Annette. The new perfume is available exclusively at Disneyland in Anaheim and Walt Disney World in Florida. It can also be ordered by mail. Funicello has been battling multiple sclerosis for the last five years. Some of the money from perfume sales will go to The Annette Funicello Research Fund for Neurological Diseases. The private fund benefits research for a broad spectrum of neurological disorders, including Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's, ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, and multiple sclerosis. Company officials described the fragrance as "light, clean and spicy." Funicello developed the scent in in conjunction with Baywood International Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz. Other Cello by Annette products, including a fragrance for men and an extensive line of skin-care products, will become available later this year. Disney theme parks also sell another line of Funicello products: teddy bears. In the 1950s, Funicello became an idol to a generation of "Mickey Mouse Club" fans, then turned into a 1960s cult figure by starring in teen beach movies with Frankie Avalon. (3) ===== E-mail addresses found while looking for something else. ========== (a) ----- Food and Drug Administration (FDA-DOM) Department of Health and Human Services 5600 Fisher Lane Rockville, MD 20857 Domain Name: FDA.GOV Administrative Contact: Bolt, Mel (MB358) BOLT@PCCRISC.FDA.GOV (301) 443-2426 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Bowen, Richard (RB622) RBOWEN@NTDOC.NCTR.FDA.GOV (501) 543-7579 Record last updated on 12-Mar-92. Domain servers in listed order: PCCRISC.FDA.GOV 150.148.8.1 FDAOC.FDA.GOV 150.148.8.150 NTDOC.NCTR.FDA.GOV 150.148.176.1 CBER.CBER.FDA.GOV 150.148.116.1 (b) ----- Roger Fajman Telephone: +1 301 402 1246 National Institutes of Health BITNET: RAF@NIHCU Bethesda, Maryland, USA Internet: RAF@CU.NIH.GOV Postmaster for CU.NIH.GOV/NIHCU, LIST.NIH.GOV/NIHLIST, NIH3PLUS (4) ===== The network grows. ========== Date : Wed, 24 Mar 1993 13:57:19 EST From : shermanm@hal.hahnemann.edu To : bro@huey.met.fsu.edu Subject: RE: ALS INTEREST GROUP Yes, I would like to be included in the discussion group. We have a very large patient population group with ALS at Hahnemann University. We are currently actively involved in clinical trials with Cephalon's new product. The entrance criteria are very limited so we are always interested in new studies for our patients that don't meet Cephalon's criteria. Michael Sherman M.D. Department of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Hahnemann University Hospital EMAIL address: shermanm@hal.hahnemann.edu (5) ===== Poetry ========== A Simple Act It is a simple act. I watch you through the window As you cut across the yard, legs taut, Eager to do. But I can feel your arm Bending to reach the wad of sheet, The heft of it, like that of floppy lettuce; And then -- miraculous -- Your tensed hands as you shake it out And smartly flip the top over the line. You hold it, end to end, To even, balance; You pat the rounded corners Shaping them to dry. Then, gauging the skies for time, You swiftly turn and leave, Contented with your small success. But I, I call it wonder of the mind and body. My brain is willing, but the flesh is weak. It waves so briskly in the wind. I prophesy its folding, Which my fingers do in dumb-show. A simple act, so easy to perform. An act of bliss. Carmen Avila, Ph.D. March 1993 Tallahassee == end of als 31 ==