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181. Sham Surgery Shakes Up Scientists, Ethicists
     

     Feb. 9, 2000 (Cleveland) -- Imagine being prepped for surgery, wheeled into an operating room, and having a hole drilled in your head but no real surgery performed. In this scenario it would be a sham, a placebo surgery -- except for the very real hole in your head. This is exactly what happened to

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182. Michael J. Fox Leaving 'Spin City' to Focus on Parkinson's Disease
     

     Jan. 19, 2000 (Atlanta) -- Actor Michael J. Fox has acted as a high-profile spokesperson for the debilitating condition called Parkinson's disease, taking his message as far as Capitol Hill. Now the actor, who has been afflicted with the disease since 1991, is taking a more personal step, by announc

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183. Fetal Cell Transplants Can Work for Parkinson's
     

     Nov. 22, 1999 (Atlanta) -- It's still an investigational procedure -- as well as a controversial one -- but for the first time, researchers have evidence that brain cells transplanted from fetal tissue into the brain of a Parkinson's disease patient work as intended. That is, the cells store and rel

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