For MSA patients, remedies are elusive

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This appeared in today's Boston Globe as a side bar in an article about brain

pacemakers. Tony Swartz-Lloyd is a member of the Boston area support group.

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The following story appeared in The Globe Online:

Headline: For MSA patients, remedies are elusive

Date: 1/1/2002

Byline:

" Despite the promise of deep brain stimulation for a number of

neurologic problems, there are some conditions for which it doesn't

seem to help, including a baffling - and devastating - condition called

multiple system atrophy, or MSA, one of several diseases loosely termed

''Parkinson's Plus.'' "

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